A sentence fragment is a group of words that is punctuated as a sentence but is not a complete sentence. Here are some examples of sentence fragments: “Walking down the street.” “Before the movie starts.” “Because he was late.” These examples are missing a subject or a verb, which makes them sentence fragments.

"A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence masquerading as a complete one. A sentence must contain a subject and a verb. It is a fragment if one of these elements is missing, as in the following example: Alice is busy tonight. Working on her French essay.

For example, take a look at this phrase: We know someone or something went to the movies. But we don't know who or what went. So this phrase is a fragment. Orders and commands (like Go clean your room! or Stand up straight!) might look like fragments, since they don't have subjects you can see.

Sentence Fragment Examples See if you can identify which element is missing from each of the following sentence fragment examples. Going to the store. The dog under the car. Because they left early. If no one can hear me. My least favorite chore.