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sentence fragment

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English

Syllables
sen-tence frag-ment
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. (It is often the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinator or relative pronoun. But not all one-word or two-word sentences are sentence fragments, though.)

Inflected Forms

sentence fragments (plural)

Questions

What does sentence fragment mean?
An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. (It is often the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinator or relative pronoun. But not all one-word or two-word sentences are sentence fragments, though.)

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