Which group of words is a sentence fragment?

a. My father wants to remove the bird's nest.

b. We may have to wait until fall before we cut the tree down.

c. There is a bird's nest in a tree my father plans to cut down.

d. Unless there are still eggs inside the nest.

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Amanda Holt

29 May, 10:50

Which group of words is a sentence fragment?

a. My father wants to remove the bird's nest.

b. We may have to wait until fall before we cut the tree down.

c. There is a bird's nest in a tree my father plans to cut down.

d. Unless there are still eggs inside the nest.

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Gator · Answer 1

The correct answer is D - "unless there are still eggs inside the nest". That is the only sentence that feels unfinished, like there is something missing, and there is, it is no finished. The other examples are independent sentences that don't really miss anything, unlike D.

Which group of words is a sentence fragment?a. My father wants to remove the bird's nest.b. We may have to wait until fall before we cut the tree down.c. There is a bird's nest in a tree my father plans to cut down.d. Unless there are still eggs inside the nest.

Which group of words is a sentence fragment?

a. My father wants to remove the bird's nest.

b. We may have to wait until fall before we cut the tree down.

c. There is a bird's nest in a tree my father plans to cut down.

d. Unless there are still eggs inside the nest.