{"id":273095,"date":"2025-07-27T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=273095"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:58:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:58:37","slug":"is-this-a-sentence-fragment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/27\/is-this-a-sentence-fragment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this a sentence fragment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is this a sentence fragment?<br>The Modern Art Museum&#8217;s award for most promising young artist.<br>yes<br>no<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-6-color\">The correct answer and explanation is:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, this is a sentence fragment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sentence fragment occurs when a group of words does not express a complete thought or lacks a subject and a verb to form a grammatically correct sentence. In this case, &#8220;The Modern Art Museum&#8217;s award for most promising young artist&#8221; lacks a main verb and does not provide a complete idea. The phrase serves as a noun phrase, but it doesn&#8217;t form a full sentence because it doesn&#8217;t tell what happened with the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this to be a complete sentence, it would need additional information, such as what the award is doing or who received it. For example: &#8220;The Modern Art Museum&#8217;s award for most promising young artist was presented to Emma Johnson.&#8221; Here, the verb &#8220;was presented&#8221; completes the thought, making it a full sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general, a sentence must have at least a subject (who or what the sentence is about) and a predicate (what the subject is doing or what is happening to it). 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