Sentence or Fragment? | Worksheet - Free Printable

You’re looking at a grammar worksheet titled “Sentence or Fragment? #1”.

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📌 Goal of the Worksheet:

To help students distinguish between complete sentences and sentence fragments.

- ✔ A sentence expresses a complete thought and includes a subject (who or what the sentence is about) and a predicate (what the subject is doing or being).
- ✘ A fragment is an incomplete sentence — it may be missing a subject, a predicate, or not express a complete thought.

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✏️ Let’s go through each item and decide whether it’s a Sentence or a Fragment:

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#### 1. Pam walked to school with Amy.
→ Sentence
✔ Subject: “Pam”
✔ Predicate: “walked to school with Amy”
✔ Complete thought.

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#### 2. Shared her turtle with the class.
→ Fragment
✘ Missing subject! Who shared?
It’s an action without telling us who did it.

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#### 3. Cooked soup for her grandmother.
→ Fragment
✘ Missing subject. Who cooked?
Incomplete thought.

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#### 4. Ray stood in line for ice cream.
→ Sentence
✔ Subject: “Ray”
✔ Predicate: “stood in line for ice cream”
✔ Complete thought.

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#### 5. Rained all night.
→ Fragment
✘ Missing subject. What rained?
(Though sometimes “it” is implied in weather expressions like “It rained,” here it’s omitted — so technically a fragment.)

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#### 6. The Smiths went on vacation.
→ Sentence
✔ Subject: “The Smiths”
✔ Predicate: “went on vacation”
✔ Complete thought.

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#### 7. Paul tied a knot.
→ Sentence
✔ Subject: “Paul”
✔ Predicate: “tied a knot”
✔ Complete thought.

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#### 8. Caught the ball for the third out.
→ Fragment
✘ Missing subject. Who caught the ball?
Incomplete thought.

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#### 9. Steven called Michael after dinner.
→ Sentence
✔ Subject: “Steven”
✔ Predicate: “called Michael after dinner”
✔ Complete thought.

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#### 10. Left her lunch on the bus.
→ Fragment
✘ Missing subject. Who left their lunch?
Incomplete thought.

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✍️ Final Answers (Circle the correct one):

1. Sentence
2. Fragment
3. Fragment
4. Sentence
5. Fragment
6. Sentence
7. Sentence
8. Fragment
9. Sentence
10. Fragment

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🖋️ Example of a sentence (as requested at the bottom):

> “The dog chased the squirrel through the park.”

✔ Subject: “The dog”
✔ Predicate: “chased the squirrel through the park”
✔ Complete thought.

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💡 Teaching Tip:

To check if something is a sentence, ask:
> “Who is doing what?”
If you can’t answer that clearly, it’s likely a fragment.

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✔ You’ve now correctly identified all sentences and fragments on this worksheet!