There are a few rules that are drummed so incessantly into our heads in school that we cannot help but internalize them. One is “No sentence fragments!” Actually, that should be “Don’t use sentence ...

Any success is linked to the completion of the action and any partial success is also partial, and sometimes total, failure. Any incomplete sentence is a defective one, for no matter how eloquent it ...

George Hage taught journalism at the University of Minnesota from 1946 through 1982. Every one of his former students I've met reveres him. Several of them sent me their memories for publication in ...

An incomplete sentence that doesn’t have all the elements needed to make a full sentence, but still makes sense. No pain, no gain! We understand this sentence to mean: if you don’t work hard, you ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...