Sentence fragment

Sentence fragment : is the lack of verb , subject or complements.

In English language sentence fragment is the daily problem of speaker. As it is wide spread language in the world the most world part makes error in their conversation. For instance the following are some of the major areas of faultiest:-

Comma splice:- This error occurs when the miss placed comma in a sentence. When this happens either the message would be distorted, become incomprehensible, or convey a message opposite to what we intended to convey.

Choppy sentences:- these are sentence that have the thematic relations but are not combined to this effect. They are, therefore, fragmented ideas.Example:- Qalkidan graduated in 1994,she graduated in English, she become a teacher. It was in 1994. she teaches English in private school.( choppy s.)Qalkidan graduated in English in 1994. in the same year she become English teacher in private school.( effective s.)

Misplaced modifiers:- when a modifier is wrongly placed the resulting construction would be either awkward or the message would be distorted. This modifier could be a word, phrase or clause.Example :- Their marriage nearly was broken. (misplaced m.)Their marriage was nearly broken.( effective m.)

Run on( fused) sentence:-this error occurs when two sentence are mixed in the same sentence when they should have been separated by an appropriate conjunction, semi colon or a full stop.Example:-I saw the students around, none of them came to class.( run on)I saw the students around but none of them came to class.( effective )

Faulty parallelism:-this faulty occurs when there are non parallel construction in sentence.

Example:- xayouluma likes walking, swimming, mountaineering & reading.(//)

xayouluma likes walking, mountaineering, swimming & he likes reading.( non //)

Faulty agreement:- agreement is the relation ship b/n a verb & a subject, a pronoun and its antecedent & number of a subject & a verb. The fault occurs when this agreement is not well maintained.

Example :-

Kassahun and his younger sister are studying computer science.Kassahun & his younger sister is studying science. ( FA)

Faulty reference of pronouns:-this fault occurs when pronouns are not correctly used.Example :- xayouluma told kassahun that he was reluctant to help him.( ambiguous)

xayouluma told kassahun, ‘you were reluctant to help me.’( effective)

Shift in point of view:- in sentence construction, we should be consistent in subject , person, number, tense, mood & voice.

Example :- They finished their work & go out to play tennis. ( fault)

They finished their work & went out to play tennis.

These all the above are little impacts of sentence error or fragment