Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly

Question

is that a sentence fragment, spelling, subject/predicate agreement, pronoun antecedent agreement, a common splice, misplaced modifier, or run on sentence. then i need it fixed correctly

Answer 1

Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly is a sentence fragment, also known as an incomplete sentence, since it lacks a main subject and a main verb that is finite (i.e., showing present, past or future tense). The best candidate for the main verb is being, but this is the -ing form of be and the -ing form of a verb is not finite (cf. present tense is, past tense was and future tense will be). Being also lacks a definite subject, i.e., we don't know to whom this being able to learn applies, in other words, who is "able to learn what is correct reality more clearly"?

 

So answering that last question would go a long way in helping you "fix" this sentence. And typically so-called -ing or participial phrases like your example pre-modify the subject of a main clause, so you could write something like Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly, a person with a college education [main clause subject, modified by "Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly"] is well prepared for lifetime learning. Also, -ing phrases themselves can be the subjects of main clauses, e.g. Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly is [main clause verb] a valuable skill. The point is that both of these examples I've given you, Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly, a person with a college education is well prepared for lifetime learning and Being able to learn what is correct reality more clearly is a valuable skill, are now technically complete sentences and contain no sentence fragments.

 

But on a side note, the phrase correct reality seems strange; I might say something like "true reality" instead, but even this sounds redundant, i.e., reality by definition is true and "real." And more broadly, I don't follow how one can "learn what is correct reality more clearly" or even "learn what is reality more clearly." That is, I think the adverb phrase more clearly doesn't really go with the verb learn, i.e., what becomes "more clear" is not the learning but rather the thing you learn about, in this case "correct reality," so it's "what is correct reality" (again, whatever that means) that becomes "more clear" to you as you learn about--or "of"--it.