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Peggy Charlton Peggy Charlton has taught high school drama and theater classes for over 20 years. She has directed award-winning one act plays and has hosted workshops at P... read more
Hello! This is Peggy Charlton from Expert Village on how to write an essay. One of the major mistakes that a student makes in writing an essay, or anyone does for that matter is incomplete sentences. I would like to focus on 2 types of incomplete sentences. The first would be a fragment. A fragment is lacking a subject or verb or a complete thought. Let me give an example. These are very elementary examples. John fell and saw. John fell and saw is an example. It has a subject verb but it really doesn't make it a complete thought, so we need another word here. John fell and saw what. Okay. Now, if we take off the John, you certainly wouldn't have a sentence fell and saw.