How to Correct FRAGMENTS: Examples of Sentence Fragments & How to Fix

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

😁 Hi there! Thanks for watching! Don't forget to like, subscribe, or share -- I really appreciate your support! 🙏 Be sure to check out my first video in the Sentences Series: Dependent vs. Independent Clauses kzbin.info/www/bejne/iorFm5tqoKpreJY and come back for the rest of the series, coming soon! PRACTICE WITH ME: Can you find the fragments? How can you correct them? Write your answers in the comments below! 😃 My favorite place to spend time is Lake Tahoe. It's a beautiful lake in the mountains of California, about 2 hours from my house. One of the deepest and largest lakes in the United States! The color of the water is deep blue, which is truly amazing to see on a sunny day. In the summer, when we go there. We camp for a few days and go hiking every day. There are tons of great hiking trails near Lake Tahoe. For instance, the Rubicon Trail, which goes along the edge of the lake. In the fall, we love to see the yellow leaves of the aspen trees, and in the winter, we love to see the lake surrounded by snow. If you come to California one day. You must visit Lake Tahoe! 👍 Learn more with these resources: Grammar lessons: kzbin.info/aero/PLTaPDxv5nudnbMc7WK5e6Hz1EQrz49Yvd English Conversation lessons: kzbin.info/aero/PLTaPDxv5nudl_T3OHH_Y6K6eqJCZm0goj Pronunciation lessons: kzbin.info/aero/PLTaPDxv5nudnU_g2Dw30CikKKTCm4U1yf Writing lessons: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hoLKn6ppq5x5kNk American Culture lessons: kzbin.info/aero/PLTaPDxv5nudm_ZCLhTdxBHq71v6IhzlZk My book recommendations for English learners: amzn.to/3xg7zXD 😊 Thanks for watching! See you again soon!

[@himajareddy3196]

Another great lesson!! This idea of grammar shorts is wowtastic! Thanks for this awesome lesson ma'am. All the best for future videos.Looking forward to Learn another great lesson!

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Thank you! 😃

[@anv.4614]

Dear Teacher Jenna, This series of yours are very helpful. Thanks. Could you please give a lesson on ellipsis as this looks like uncompleted sentences? warm greetings from Germany.

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Great suggestion! I will do that.

[@Engstudyskill]

Watched twice in a row. The analogy between DC and a baby was intriguing. My question: in the case of 'because', I often see the 'IC , DC' pattern, even in the works of distinguished scholars/writers. Why this happens? "The public philosophy by which we live cannot secure the liberty it promises, because it cannot inspire the sense of community and civic engagement that liberty requires."(Michael Sandel:Public Philosophy, p.11) "In fact I could not [live in the house indefinitely], because the owners were waiting only for a zoning change to tear the house down ..." (Joan Didion: The White Album in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS OF THE CENTURY, p.424 )

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Excellent question. I mention this issue in one of my videos, maybe in the commas video. In academic writing, we usually do not use a comma in the IC DC pattern (except with the conjunctions while, whereas, and sometimes with although and even though). However, it is certainly possible to see differences in the way comma rules are used for the following reasons: Some comma rules are a bit flexible, so you can see differences depending on which rules people learned and how strictly they follow them. Also, there are different styles of writing (academic, creative, reporting for newspapers, etc.), and each style follows rules a bit differently. Another reason you might see commas used differently is that there can be differences between American and other types of English. Finally, we often add commas when clauses are long to help the reader see the parts of the sentence more easily. Writing in English for school typically follows the MLA guidelines. You can see some of the comma rules here: style.mla.org/types-of-sentences/ I hope that helps. :)

[@Engstudyskill]

Thank you very much for your reply. I would like to watch your commas video and read MLA guidelines afterwards. By the way, I saw Lake Tahoe on a KZbin video. One of the comments said it's a 'God's place.' The expression was not an exaggeration. A stunning vista.

[@mohammadalikhaleghi8315]

What a wonderful lesson! Warm greetings from Iran! I hope you would continue the series. Indeed I started watching your whole videos across the channel and I should say they are brilliant. Keep going in making more videos like this. We’ll support you. ❤❤❤

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Thank you!! I will have a new video later today 😊

[@mohammadalikhaleghi8315]

@@LearnAcademicEnglish what a great news! I’m looking forward.

[@IBRAHIM_ORTON]

Nice video mam you have been doing your great job

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Thank you!

[@IBRAHIM_ORTON]

@@LearnAcademicEnglish You are an awesome teacher ...😊😊

[@rodrigosouza8723]

Hi, Jenna! Happy Friday! Thanks for this video -- indeed so helpful and clarifying. Good luck on finishing your students' grading. I hope you have a wonderful weekend! :)

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Thank you! You too!

[@Abd-ElKader-63]

Thanks, Professor, for this lesson. In your two last sentences, we put a comma before which and such as. Is it correct?

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Yes, that’s correct. In the video, I added a comma in both of them (it was written in red but maybe it was hard to see).

[@Abd-ElKader-63]

@@LearnAcademicEnglish Thank you for your response.

[@loko8215]

In the third example, I thought my mom was one of the downsides hahaha

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

lol. That's another way of thinking of it! Without the context, it's hard to say. :)

[@zakariiraillen2559]

Here are my answers; I put the corrections between brackets. I hope I did well. My favorite place to spend time is Lake Tahoe. It's a beautiful lake in the mountains of California, about 2 hours from my house[, o]ne of the deepest and largest lakes in the United States! The color of the water is deep blue, which is truly amazing to see on a sunny day. In the summer, when we go there[, w]e camp for a few days and go hiking every day. There are tons of great hiking trails near Lake Tahoe. For instance, the Rubicon Trail[ ] which goes along the edge of the lake. In the fall, we love to see the yellow leaves of the aspen trees[ ] and in the winter, we love to see the lake surrounded by snow. If you come to California one day[, y]ou must visit Lake Tahoe!

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Hi Zakari, I hope you're doing well. Thanks for doing the practice! Everything is correct except a couple of places: You wrote this: For instance, the Rubicon Trail[ ] which goes along the edge of the lake. This is a fragment because there's no main subject or verb. Basically, it's a noun phrase with a relative clause describing it, so there's no independent clause (i.e. no S V). You have to add something to it to make it a complete sentence, like this: For instance, you can hike the Rubicon... Or you can attach it to the previous sentence, like this: There are tons of great hiking trails near Lake Tahoe, for instance, the Rubicon... Second, you wrote this: In the fall, we love to see the yellow leaves of the aspen trees[ ] and in the winter, we love to see the lake surrounded by snow. You should use a comma before "and" because the second clause is an independent clause, and we use a comma to separate 2 ICs. That is the topic of my next video.

[@zakariiraillen2559]

Thank you Jenna for the corrections. I am doing fine thank you. By the way when you asked me if "I am doing well" I remembered watching two different videos one American the other one British that got me confused. In these videos they say "I am well" is more correct than "I am doing well" but I red somewhere that one should say "I am good" and "I am going well" in the first case "good" is an adjectif it describes a noun, and in the second case "well" is an adverb it describes a verb, so according to that it is incorrect to say "I am well", one should rather say "I am doing well", what do you thing.

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

This is a surprisingly complicated topic, and one that I think few people really know about, so most people don't really use these correctly. OK, first, the words "well" and "good" are both adjectives, so you can say "I'm well" or "I'm good." However, a lot of people don't realize that the word "well" as an adjective means "healthy." For example, we can say "After the surgery, she has not been well" or "He is unwell" (meaning "in bad health"). When people ask me "How are you?", I usually say "I'm good" because I'm talking about my overall state, not specifically my health. Second, the word "well" is also an adverb, so we can say "I'm doing well" or "things are going well." How are you doing? I'm doing well. The problem is that most native speakers don't know or care about these nuances, so as a result, a lot of native speakers say "I'm well" because they think that sounds better than "I'm good."

[@zakariiraillen2559]

Thank you Jenna for answering my question, I really appreciate it, you are the best !

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[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

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[@mohammadalikhaleghi8315]

Why do we need comma before "which" and "such as", but we don't need it before "because"? It seems that you broke the formula: IC DC (without comma)

[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Good question! Sentences with "such as" are not IC DC sentences because "such as" is used before nouns, not clauses. The use of which can be different because those are relative (adjective) clauses, which can be restrictive or non-restrictive. Non-restrictive relative clauses always have a comma before.

[@mohammadalikhaleghi8315]

@@LearnAcademicEnglish Amazing! You so kind. Thanks teacher!

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[@LearnAcademicEnglish]

Jenna