How is a fragment different from a sentence?
8. Provide several other examples of sentence fragments/incomplete thoughts and model eliminating those by creating complete sentences from them (see Sentence Fragments for Modeling). After modeling a few, invite students to offer suggestions of other ways to edit to eliminate some of the same fragments, again noting that there are usually multiple ways to do so. After practicing editing to eliminate sentence fragments when they occur in isolation, use the paragraph at the bottom of the page to discuss and then model editing to eliminate fragments in a context. Make it clear that what a fragment is tied to when it is in context has to also fit in the scope of the larger piece of writing.
