sentence fragment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsentenceandfragment
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sentence
noun[C]
uk/ˈsen.təns/us/ˈsen.təns/
a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter ...
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fragment
noun[C]
uk/ˈfræɡ.mənt/us/ˈfræɡ.mənt/
a small piece or a part, especially when broken from ...
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(Definition ofsentenceandfragmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Eachsentencefragment(without the participle) and each verb stem was compiled into an audio wav-file.
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The refrain word,sentencefragmentor lines would normally be identical throughout the song.
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Twenty-five undergraduates, divided into two groups, judged how likely it was that a given direct object would follow a givensentencefragment.
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Given asentencefragmentas input, it is not at all clear what the connectionist component of the model would output.
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Each trial consisted of the presentation of asentencefragmentfollowed by the presentation of the corresponding verb stem.
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In many cases the pictures were not necessary to elicit the answers, but they came in handy with some sentences when thesentencefragmentwas ambiguous and allowed different endings.
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Participants were presented with sentence fragments such as (5a) or (5b) and had to choose between a low (6a) and a high (6b) attachment continuation of thesentencefragment.
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A set of words with no independent clause may be an "incomplete sentence", also called a "sentencefragment".
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The opening line of the book is asentencefragmentwhich continues from the book's unfinished closing line, making the work a never-ending cycle.
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So, the quine of: is asentencefragmentwould be: is asentencefragmentis asentencefragmentwhich, incidentally, is a true statement.
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In our case, chunks are also the sentence fragments for which the spans are not influenced by any verbal syntactic projection.
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A short practice section consisting of 10 sentence fragments preceded the experimental task.
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The sentence fragments were presented on paper and participants were instructed to write down the remainder of the sentence.
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For the experimental stage, eight quasi-randomized lists of sentence fragments were created for each task.
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Units of this kind have been identified in descriptions for a long time as discourse markers, parentheticals, sentence fragments and the like.
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This paper deals with some technical aspects of the random generation of sentences and sentence fragments.
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Sentence fragments that were unintelligible or otherwise devoid of any referential content or meaning were considered fillers as well.
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Finally, there are quite a few typos and disconnected sentence fragments.
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