Because I love the Philadelphia Eagles, I don't like the New York Giants.
What is "Because I love the Philadelphia Eagles"?
100
After my friend returned home from Iraq and got settled down in his house.
What is a sentence fragment?
100
This weather was beautiful this weekend.
What is a simple sentence?
100
A sentence that tells the reader the subject, claim, and roadmap of your essay.
What is a thesis statement?
100
What kind of fragment is this:
"When we play Jeopardy in English class"
What is a dependent clause fragment?
200
If I had a million dollars, I wouldn't be playing Grammar and Sentence Fragment Jeopardy.
What is "If I had a million dollars"?
200
This weekend I watched the Alabama-Arkansas game, cut the lawn, graded papers, and cleaned the basement. The disgusting, dirty, creepy basement.
What is "The disgusting, dirty, creepy basement" is a fragment?
200
When my wife and I went to Ashland, we stopped at Jolly Pirate Donuts.
What is a complex sentence?
200
A sentence that tells the reader what your paragraph is about.
What is a topic sentence?
200
What kind of fragment do you see below:
I read the Harry Potter books last summer and loved them. Especially the third book.
What is an explanatory fragment?
300
When it rains, it pours.
What is "When it rains"?
300
Columbus the capital of Ohio is two hours away from here.
What is "the capital of Ohio" is missing some commas around it? That group of words is an appositive and should have a commas around it: Columbus, the capital of Ohio, is two hours away from here.
300
Tracey sits on one side of the classroom, and Skylar sits on the other side of our way too warm classroom.
What is a compound sentence?
300
A word that is used with a comma to combine sentences.
What is a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)?
300
What kind of fragment do you see below:
My teacher might make some changes to the class. Depending on what people wrote in their 1/4 term evaluations.
What is a "ing" or "to" fragment? (Also called a present participle fragment)
400
The team played well when they figured out how to stop the other team's offense.
What is "when they figured out how to stop the other team's offense"?
400
Although my class is playing Jeopardy I hope they are learning about writing.
What is a missed comma between "Jeopardy" and "I"?
400
My class is playing Grammar Jeopardy today in our classroom.
What is a simple sentence?
400
A word, group of words, or sentence that tells your reader how parts of your paper are connected.
What is a transition?
400
What kind of fragment do you see below?
It makes me very sleepy. The study of English.
What is a phrase fragment?
500
I went home and iced my ankle after I played basketball with my friends in the park and rolled my ankle while driving to the lane.
What is "after I played basketball with my friends in the park and rolled my ankle while driving to the lane"?
500
I have two cats. One is June Bug. The other is Tripper. One is all black. The other has white on his belly. Tripper is young and feisty. June Bug is old and lazy. They fight all the time. They eat too much.
What is poor sentence variety?
500
I fell asleep when my teacher started talking about sentence types.
What is a complex sentence?
500
A punctuation mark that is used to combine sentences alone or with a conjunctive adverb like "however" or "in fact."
What is a semicolon?
500
What kind of fragment do you see below?
When we finish this assignment, work on our essays, complete our peer reviews, and do the rest of our homework.