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Sure -- the other comments have done a good job of explaining my usage of "sentence fragment" (which was what we referred to it as in my composition classes in
by mturk 2y ago
Sure -- the other comments have done a good job of explaining my usage of "sentence fragment" (which was what we referred to it as in my composition classes in high school, although I now see this may have been more colloquial than I realized) but the fragment in question was of the form:
"A special thanks to [name] for [carefully proofreading]."
What really got me is that I probably even thought I had written "goes to" or something, since that (with the verb) is the type of construction I often use!
- 2143 2y agoAs a non-native speaker, I have no idea what's wrong with the sentence (fragment?) you wrote.
- hunter2_ 2y agoWhen removing extraneous modifiers, it takes the form of "[article] [subject]" -- "A thanks." Similar constructions would be "A cucumber." "The house." It's a fragment, not a complete sentence, because it lacks a predicate. Had GP included the word "goes" as discussed, it would've created a predicate. > predicates are a necessary part of English sentence structure [0] [0] https://www.grammarly.com/blog/predicate/ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/predicate/