sentence fragment in English

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sentence fragments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sentence fragment (plural sentence fragments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. It is usually the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun."
      ],
      "id": "en-sentence_fragment-en-noun-0yhhG7ur",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "incomplete",
          "incomplete"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence"
        ],
        [
          "phrase",
          "phrase"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ],
        [
          "grammatical",
          "grammatical"
        ],
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "relative pronoun",
          "relative pronoun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. It is usually the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sentence fragment"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sentence fragments",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sentence fragment (plural sentence fragments)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. It is usually the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "incomplete",
          "incomplete"
        ],
        [
          "sentence",
          "sentence"
        ],
        [
          "phrase",
          "phrase"
        ],
        [
          "clause",
          "clause"
        ],
        [
          "grammatical",
          "grammatical"
        ],
        [
          "subject",
          "subject"
        ],
        [
          "verb",
          "verb"
        ],
        [
          "relative pronoun",
          "relative pronoun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) An incomplete sentence; a phrase or clause that is punctuated and capitalized as a sentence but does not constitute a complete grammatical sentence. It is usually the result of failing to include a subject and a verb, or beginning a sentence with a subordinate conjunction or relative pronoun."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sentence fragment"
}

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"sentence fragment" meaning in English

Noun

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