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AssignmentMultiple Choice

Contested Usage

Question 6 • GA-GSE English Language Arts 11

Identify the sentence fragment?

Answer
A
Phyllis Wheatly was an African American poet in colonial America.
B
Phyllis Wheatly and other African American women writers in colonial America.

Explanation

Choice B is a fragment because it names Phyllis Wheatly and other writers but does not say what they did or were. Choice A is a complete sentence: it has a subject, “Phyllis Wheatly,” and a verb, “was.”

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