Question

Which of the following is a sentence fragment? The first tiny purple crocuses bloomed in February. High up in the willow trees in the springtime. Covered in snow, the branches reflected the sunlight.

Answer 1

The correct option is $\boxed{\textbf{High up in the willow trees in the springtime}}$.

Further Explanation:

The sentences which are incomplete and do not have a complete meaning in it are known as fragments. The words which collectively do not form any complete sense but they look like a sentence. Independent clauses are not present in the sentence fragments. Dependent clauses or phrases can be easily pointed in a sentence fragment. A sentence fragment looks like a sentence as it begins with a capital letter and ends with a period. But at the same time, the complete sense is absent in it. A sentence fragment does not have a complete sense in it. A sentence becomes a fragment when either the subject, verb or both are missing.

In the given sentences, the first and the third sentence is complete.

The second sentence is a sentence fragment. The complete sentences carry a complete sense in it while the second sentence does not contain a complete thought. Although it begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, still the meaning isn't clear. There is no independent clause in the sentence. Hence, it is an example of a sentence fragment. The complete meaning of the sentence remains unknown to the readers. The other two sentences carry complete sense in them.

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Answer details:

Grade: Senior School

Subject: English Grammar

Chapter: Sentence Fragment

Keywords:

Sentence fragment, Independent clauses, Dependent clauses, complete sense, subject, capital letter, meaning, verb.

Answer 2

Fragment: High up in the willow trees in the spring time.

FURTHER EXPLANATION

A sentence is a group of words that expresses a complete thought. A complete sentence has the following components or parts:

1. Subject - doer of the action
2. Predicate - the action or the verb
3. Complete thought

A fragment is a group of words that do not express a complete thought. They are incomplete sentences. They may lack either a subject, verb or both.

Option 1: The first tiny purple crocuses bloomed in February.

This is a complete sentence. The subjects are the crocuses and the verb is bloomed. It also expresses a complete thought.

Option 2: High up in the willow trees in the springtime.

This is a fragment. It does not express a complete thought. It doesn't have a subject nor a verb.  

Option 3: Covered in snow, the branches reflected the sunlight.

This is a sentence with the subject branches and verb reflected. There is a clear thought about the actor or subject of the sentence and the action.

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Keywords: fragment, sentence, subject, verb, predicate