Question

Although Marcie and her husband were unsure of whether or not it was a good idea, they decided to get a little spaniel puppy for their children. When the puppy first arrived at the Wilson's home. Even the kids were a little uncertain about how to interact with it. Though after a few hours, the kids and the puppy were tumbling around on the floor wrestling and laughing. Marcie and her husband knew they'd made a good decision.
Which of these is a sentence fragment?
A) When the puppy first arrived at the Wilson's home.
B) Marcie and her husband knew they'd made a good decision.
C) They decided to get a little spaniel puppy for their children.
D) Even the kids were a little uncertain about how to interact with it.

Answer 1

Answer:

A) When the puppy first arrived at the Wilson's home.

Explanation:

Sentence fragments can be a little tricky. They are basically, as the name suggests, a sentence-like structures that can't stand on their own and they don't convey complete information.

So, this means that sentence fragments are dependent clauses and phrases.

All of the answers are sentences (they have subject, verb, carry a full meaning) except for answer A.

That is a dependent clause because it tells us when something happened but we don't know what happened, thus, this is only a fragment that doesn't give us full information.