Question

HELP PLEASE Which is a sentence fragment?

A.
Baby chicks, born with pale yellow down, chirped and scurried about.

B.
The feel of the baby chick in my hands.

C.
The fairgrounds close at ten o'clock, shortly after the fireworks display.

D.
Barnyard animals wandered about in a pen at the petting zoo.

Answer 1

@kohai

Answer 2

what do you think the answer is? :)

Answer 3

B? honestly i really don't know

Answer 4

@butterflydreamer

Answer 5

You're correct

Answer 6

B is the correct answer

Answer 7

Thank you, but why if you don't mind my asking?@kohai @butterflydreamer

Answer 8

B is correct! (must be a lucky guess xD )
But a sentence fragment fails to be a sentence in the sense that it cannot stand by itself. So although it looks like a sentence, it isn't grammatically correct.
Options A, C and D makes sense as a sentence right?
If you look at option B it just says
"The feel of the baby chick in my hands."
Even if you read it aloud you can already tell there is something missing (like another clause) to make it a complete sentence :)

Answer 9

Because "The feel of a baby chick in my hands" -- you need some sort of description in there at the end. Like, what about the feel of the baby chick?

Answer 10

THANK YOU :D @kohai @butterflydreamer

Answer 11

You're welcome. @butterflydreamer was probably more technical but my explanation might help you if you're on the fly trying to spot a fragment

Answer 12

you're welcome :)!!

Answer 13

I will give @butterflydreamer a medal and can you please give @kohai a medal, you both deserve one :)

Answer 14

already done ^_^

Answer 15

can i ask you one more?

Answer 16

@butterflydreamer @kohai

Answer 17

sureee

Answer 18

Which is a run-on sentence?

A.
A worn yellow quilt was lying at the foot of the antique bed, a gift from their grandmother.

B.
His helmet bore the number of the firehouse, which was more than 100 years old.

Answer 19

C.
If you start saving now, you will be able to buy a car sooner.

D.
There were only a few dancers on the floor, the couple soon became the center of attention.

Answer 20

i think it's d, but I'm not positive @butterflydreamer

Answer 21

A run-on is a sentence in which two or more independent clauses (i.e., complete sentences) are joined without appropriate punctuation or conjunction.
^ that's the definition on what a run-on sentence but i'm pretty sure you're correct :)

Answer 22

D would make sense because there are two independent clauses (2 complete sentences)
Like "there were only a few dancers on the floor. " and "the couple soon became the center of attention." Can you see how if you break up the sentence into two clauses, they are independent so they make sense are separate clauses? :)
So therefore, it must be a run-on sentence!