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Guidelines in Writing Complete Sentences

Purposive Communication

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Guidelines in Writing Complete Sentences

Purposive Communication

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Guidelines in Writing

Complete Sentences
A great sentence verbalizes ideas
clearly and efficiently,
establishing effective
Sentence Fragments
A sentence fragment is a sentence that is
missing either its subject or its main
verb. Some sentence fragments occur as
the result of simple typographical errors or
omission of words. They can often be
avoided with careful proofreading.
Evaluate the following sentences:
Visited the park last month.
After the session, Jane. My dreams are.

Guide questions:
1. What does each sentence lack? Why?
2. How will you make each sentence
complete?
Sentence Fragments
The two most common causes of
fragments are the misuse of subordinators
and the misuse of prepositions. In English,
a clause is defined as a unit that contains
both a verb and its subject.
Clauses
Evaluate each clause:
1. I am not interested to in pseudosciences.
2. Senators like the new proposal because it can
benefit the country.
3. I am happy that it is raining in the middle of April.
4. Since you studied well, you must reward
yourself with a good movie while we stay in the
resort.
Phrase Fragments
Unattached phrases must be made part of a
complete sentence. We can join them either using a
comma or a conjunction.

Correct the statement below:


Since I was done with the test, I put my pencil and
paper down. Waiting for the proctor to start collecting
the test papers.
Main (independent) clauses and
subordinate (dependent) clauses
Main (or independent) clauses can form
sentences on their own. They are not
dependent on other clauses. Subordinate (or
dependent) clauses cannot form sentences on
their own. They are dependent on main clauses
to form sentences.
Evaluate the following sentences:
1. I didn’t go to work because I wasn’t feeling very well.
2. He studied violin and mathematics before taking a
medical degree and doing postgraduate work in
biophysics at Harvard.
3. She had pretty hair and must have been nice-looking
when she was young.
4. If I tell him will he be angry?
Subordinate clause fragments
This type of sentence fragment occurs because
the subordinate clause is separated from the
main clause and cannot stand on its own. Two
clauses can be combined using a subordinating
conjunction or an adverb to show the
dependence of one clause on the other.
Evaluate the following sentences:
1.The council favors the proposed law.
Because it contains projects to mitigate
law.
2.Since you know the ingredients. You
must buy the ingredients in the
supermaarket while we are fixing the
oven.

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