{"id":12233,"date":"2016-11-15T09:02:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T14:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grockit.com\/collegeprep\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2020-09-11T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T20:42:32","slug":"sentence-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpapp.kaptest.com\/study\/act\/sentence-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT English: Sentence Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ACT English portion is unlike the SAT Writing in that it requires a more holistic understanding of English grammar. The SAT\u2019s single-question format is conducive to formulaic errors that, while tricky, can be narrowed down to a handful of inconspicuous grammar mistakes. The ACT English, on the other hand, features a wider variety of errors that aren\u2019t so formulaic. As a result, the ACT requires a more fundamental understanding of how sentences work. One common error that effectively tests this fundamental understanding is the sentence fragment.
\nSentence fragments are sentences that lack one or more of the necessary components of a sentence. What are the necessary components of a sentence, you ask? A subject and a verb. (Please notice that the sentence I just wrote, \u201cA subject and a verb,\u201d is a fragment and would be totally wrong on the ACT).
\nTo demonstrate how essential the subject and the verb are, here is a very<\/em> simple sentence that is grammatically correct.
\n\u201cI run.\u201d
\nHow is that a sentence, you ask? It\u2019s only two tiny words! The sentence does, however, have a subject (I) and a verb which corresponds to the subject (run). You\u2019ll soon learn that \u201cfragment\u201d does not mean that the sentence is too short to be a sentence. The ACT will prey on this misconception and use long, complicated sentences as fragments.
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