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Question

13. Which of the following groups of words is a sentence fragment.

A. When we stopped by the garden.
B. Stop by the garden.
C. We stopped: she didn’t.
D Stopping by the garden, we saw that the flowers were in bloom.

B--Is not correct.

Again, This is NOT my work. I am helping a friend with her English work. Also she does not have the internet. She is from Germany and she’s having a hard time understanding English. With your comments it is helping her to understand English, and also how to use it later. Plus I don’t want to get the wrong answer in showing her. That’s why I am asking for some extra help. Is that a crime?

Example:
It's -- is the contraction of IT IS
Its -- is the possessive -- belonging to it
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Answer 1

First of all, your two examples at the end are absolutely correct. Many people incorrectly use 'it's' as a possesive when they should use 'its', so I congratulate you!

Regarding your four groups of words:

(A) This can be 'considered' as a complete sentence in some contexts if it is taken as an answer to a question. e.g. "When did you see the burglar?"

"When we stopped by the garden." (The subject-object relationship is understood from the question.)

BUT with no specific context it doesn't stand up and it's a fragment, because the subject-object relationship is absent and so the function of the fragment is not clear. To explain further, there could be a phrase at the end, such as "...by the garden, we saw a burglar running away." Or, we could have a phrase at the beginning, like "We saw the burglar running away when we stopped..."

You see? This is why it's considered a fragment.

B) This is an imperative form; in this case, because there is no exclamation mark at the end we take it that a suggestion is being made -- rather than an express command is being given. So, within the context of imperatives it functions as a complete sentence. Obviously, who or what should stop by the garden must be known (at least by implication) to make it meaningful, but its function is clear.

C) This one functions well. It simply states what happened; the colon's use is quite acceptable here, although some may prefer a semi-colon.

D) I think it's clear that this is a normal, complete sentence.

So, I'll go for (A) as the fragment, but don't be disturbed if some people think (B) is the best choice. I very much doubt that anyone will go for (C) or (D) except as a gag. Language is not always cut and dried, especially on points like this, because processes of change are constantly at work -- which is why we don't talk like Shakespeare these days!

Lenky

Answer 2

A is the sentence fragment. What they mean by that is that it is not a complete sentence, something is missing from it.
ie. When we stopped by the garden... we saw Sarah planting flowers.
B is an invitation, C is a statement of fact, D describes what happened whan you stopped by the garden.
In cases A, B, D "to stop by" means to visit.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Well... The reason why "B" is correct is because in an English command, we are allowed an implied "You." Therefore: Close the door (you close the door), Eat all your dinner (you eat all your dinner) and Stop by the garden are all perfectly grammatical because of the implied "you" in the command.

Answer "A"
in incorrect because there is no active verb... you can hear it when you read it out loud.... when we stopped by the garden,..... a cat jumped out... I fainted.... she laughed at me. The verb "stop" in this is used to modify the real action... can you see?

Answer 5

A -- it is not a complete sentence, whereas all the others are.

Answer 6

A - it doesn't make sense when you read it on it's own.

Answer 7

A