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Online Writing Lab
Tutorials: Grammar
Identifying and Correcting Sentence Fragments
Fragments Lacking a Subject
The following are sentence fragments because they lack a subject. Readers don't know who or what is being discussed.
Became important because scientists understood how important soil organisms are.
(WHAT became important?)
Later ate all the pizza that was in the fridge.
(WHO ate it?)
This problem can be easily corrected by including a subject:
Microbiology became important because scientists understood how important soil organisms are.
Hank later ate all the pizza that was in the fridge.
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Last Updated August 26, 2008
by Allen Gathman