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It seems fine to me. Good journalistic style. But yes, it is what’s called a “sentence fragment” in that it’s presented as a list of three items, with no main subject and verb. In the Wikipedia article on sentence clause structure, the example given of an incomplete sentence or sentence fragment is “What an idiot!”.
For example, I often go to the cinema. It's placed in the beginning of the sentence as I don't see them very often is placed at the end of the sentence. I can't explain why we sometimes you put often at the beginning or at the end of the sentence. Normally, an adverb is between the verb and the object so as the first example.
As a complete sentence, it lacks a subject (I) and the verb isn't complete (it should be "am looking"). However, as Miss Julie wrote, it's acceptable. It's more common, in informal writing, than the grammatically correct "I am looking forward to seeing you."
Sentence: The research confirms the hypothesis that domestic violence against people with disabilities is extremely latent. Problem: The editor shows that it is a sentence fragment and that I have a standalone dependent clause here. So, it suggests to either attach this clause to the sentence before or after it, depending on the context.
Well, "for" is usually used as a coordinating conjunction meaning "because" between clauses . Because it's all right to start sentences with conjunctions, some writers do so. When you see a sentence beginning with "for", you can read it to mean "because" and connect it to whatever came before the sentence: I will surely be healthy. For I always ...
Is this a sentence or sentence fragment? I can't find the main verb of it. Hence my deliberately provocative title, which was intended to suggest that there was a certain 'medieval' unity in the history of Persia between the mid-11th and the late 18th centuries, and that the country's...
Finding a common ground with concentration on aspects of agreement between both of you instead of looking for aspects of disagreement. I wrote this sentence and it give me a Fragment. Looks like is missing a verb and I beleive it should be before instead of. Any help please.
Crafted, honed sentence are found in law books and literature. Common speech makes adjustments 'on the fly', so that, for example a verb doesn't match the subject. Perhaps entangled's nuanced graceful sentence is the one that's artificial (as speech). //The cat was sitting quietly on the doormat.//
Your example is a question, not a statement. But you can also use “until” at the beginning of a normal sentence, e.g.:
I came across these underlined sentence and fragments in an article: With tears in his eyes, he thought of the children in Ipoh. He had never seen them. His daughter's children. His grandchidlren. Is it a style in writing where ellipsis is used? Why it is not written as: He had never seen them, his daughter's children, his grandchildren. or