2. Fragments if it A fragment is a word group that cannot stand alone as a sentence but is punctuated as were a sentence. A fragment is difficult to understand because it is an incomplete statement. A fragment is a piece of information that is punctuated as a sentence but that lacks some of the characteristics of a complete sentence. A fragment is an incomplete sentence. Some fragments are incomplete because they lack either a subject or a verb, or both. The fragments that most students have trouble with however, they are dependent clauses- they have a subject and a verb, so they look like complete sentences, but they don't e a complete thought. They are called "dependent because they cannot stand on their own. Fragments occur when phrases are punctuated as sentences even though they are not actually sentences. Often we write them when we feel we have finished expressing athought, and then decide to add to it but add to it wrongly. There are three types of errors which produce sentence fragments: