The setting of Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" takes place in a small, nondescript town located in rural America on the morning of June 27th.
Willy hopes that Biff will make something of himself, yet Biff drifts from job to job without any ambition in life. He used to work as a shipping clerk but he stole basketballs from his boss. He once spent three months in jail because he stole a suit. He failed Math so he did not graduate from high school. Now Biff works in cattle ranches and farms. At his age of 34 he should already have a wife and family and a steady job yet he just wanders from one place to another looking for jobs.
Answer:
Both parties knew that at some point war would be unavoidable.
Explanation:
A combining form meaning "father," occurring originally in loanwords from Greek and Latin (patriarch; patrician), and used in the formation of new compounds.
It is not a fragment. It is a complete sentence.
