| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| FRAGMENT, FRAGMENT SENTENCE |
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| A fragment sentence is one that lacks either a predicate or both a subject and a predicate. In the terms of traditional grammar, it is not a complete sentence. Fragments can never stand alone but must always have clear and close relationship to a context if they are to make sense. Fragments are also called incomplete sentences, but in fact many of them are response utterances, constantly used and easily understood in the give-and-take of conversation but requiring great care in writing lest the situation utterance to which each responds not be immediately clear. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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