1.The author of the book,William Gaddis
2.It's easy to grow a pumpkin
3.Jesus wept.
2007-07-05 07:30:56 · 10 answers · asked by jame2226 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Number 1 is a fragment because there is no verb, or tell what William Gaddis did.
Number 2 is a complete sentence because it tells what "it's easy" to do.
Number 3 is the shortest complete sentence in the Bible.
2007-07-05 09:43:50 · answer #1 · answered by jan51601 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 is a sentence fragment: The author of the book, William Gaddis because it has no verb nor does it express a complete thought, which are two of the three components required for a complete sentence. The other component is the subject, which will be either a noun or a pronoun, and this sentence fragment does possess. The noun, author, is the subject of this sentence fragment. "The" is an adjective; "of the book" is a prepositional phrase--"of" is a preposition, "the" is an adjective modifying "book" which is the object of the preposition(al) phrase and is also a noun. William Gaddis is an appositive renaming or identifying author, and would be followed by a comma to complete the sentence.
#2 is a complete sentence and needs to have a period @ the end after the word "pumpkin." The pronoun "It" is the subject of the sentence, "is" (part of the contraction It's) would be the verb, and expresses a complete thought, which are all the required components of a complete sentence.
#3 is a complete sentence b/c Jesus is the subject, wept is the verb, and it expresses a complete thought. Hope this helps. Good luck!
2007-07-05 08:20:32 · answer #2 · answered by Virginia rocks! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1. The test of a complete sentence is does it contain a subject and a verb. The first sentence has a subject but no verb so it is a sentence fragment
2007-07-05 07:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by casesweeps 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 is a sentence fragment
2007-07-05 07:36:46 · answer #4 · answered by Stefanie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to this website. Try these very short sentences/fragments. You have to identify them as "sentence" or "fragment". They are very simple. Then you will be able to answer your question. Good luck! But, because I'm nice, the answer is number 1 to your question.
owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_frag.html
2007-07-05 07:47:12 · answer #5 · answered by thepetmomma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The link that petmomma gave you is a good one, because it corrects a mistake made by the other posters.
A fragment can still be a fragment even if it has both a subject and a predicate.
"After we slept."
"While the car sped away."
Both have subjects and verbs, but are still fragments because we don't know "after what"? and "while what"? They aren't complete thoughts.
2007-07-05 08:05:55 · answer #6 · answered by historian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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they are all correct except: the waltz you saved for me- is a fragment when the moon comes over the mountain- is a fragment
2016-03-27 01:39:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
#1 - what about the author? There's a subject, but no action.
2007-07-05 07:48:08 · answer #8 · answered by garpit c 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.The author of the book,William Gaddis
It has a complete subject but it does not have a complete predicate.
2007-07-05 07:38:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first one because there is no verb
2007-07-05 07:35:11 · answer #10 · answered by wenchiepirategirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋