![]() There are times when you need to spell it all out. ![]() There are times when the paragraph or scene is better served by full sentences, with specific verbs and subjects. Use them, but do so with the knowledge that there are times and places where they work better than others. So, now that you know it’s okay, sometimes preferable, to use sentence fragments, how do you use them correctly? And those writers know how to write grammatically incomplete sentences that are nonetheless complete for their purpose. They can be necessary for the life of a passage.Īnd what readers know, writers know. Perhaps it’s just a first step from a first teacher, and somewhere down the line someone else was supposed to teach us how to break that rule in order to create phrases that make a splash when they’re grammatically incomplete but oh so thoroughly complete in meaning.įace it: readers of fiction know that sentences don’t need to be complete in order to make an impact. Or perhaps not. Creative non-fiction is filled with incomplete sentences. Perhaps it’s the way to teach non-fiction. Well, perhaps that’s the way to teach language skills to children just learning how to write. But never use sentence fragments-never, never, never.Īre you nodding because that’s the advice you got? ![]() If you’re of a certain age, you were probably taught in school that incomplete sentences are a no-no.Īll sentences must have a subject and a verb and if they have supporting words, that’s even better. Maby Fiction Editor Beth Hill last modified March 11, 2012 ![]()
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