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B4H
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A sentence fragment is a group of words that does not form
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a complete sentence. Sentence fragments can be corrected
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by deleting unnecessary periods and capitals and joining
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with other words to form a complete sentence. (Sometimes a
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comma is appropriate.)
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The first specimen caught. Was an ox.
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The first specimen caught was an ox.
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The bird was sitting on the roof. Sunning himself.
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The bird was sitting on the roof, sunning himself.
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rewriting the sentence, as shown below.
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Sunning himself, the bird sat on the roof.
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