Question

Which sentence best corrects the clause fragment? I cut my finger with the stick. That I found in the pond. A pond that I found cut my finger with the stick. That I found in the pond I cut my finger with the stick. I cut my finger with the stick that I found in the pond. I cut my finger. With the stick that I found in the pond.

Answer 1

The sentence that corrects the clause fragment is I cut my finger with the stick that I found in the pond.

Explanation:

A clause fragment is an incomplete sentence. What must be encountered in every sentence are the following three elements:

• a subject - what the sentence is about;
• a predicate - the action performed by the subject;
• a complete thought.

When one of these three elements is missing, we get a clause fragment.

In the given example, we have:

• one independent (main) clause - I cut my finger with a stick.
• one dependent (subordinate) relative clause - That I found in the pond.

Dependent clauses contain a subject and a predicate, but don't have complete meaning. That is why, when they are separated from the main clause, they represent a fragment and not a complete sentence.

The sentence that corrects this fragment is I cut my finger with the stick that I found in the pond. We simply connected the independent and the dependent clause and formed a complex sentence. That is the only given option that doesn't contain another fragment or has a changed meaning.

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