Sentence Fragments.

Question

According to the latest weather report. Heavy rains will fall for the next few days.

Answer 1

Hi Dave,

For a sentence to be complete, it requires a subject and a predicate. The subject is the object of the sentence, and the predicate is the part that tells us about the subject.

In this example, your first sentence "According to the latest weather report" is a fragment because it lacks a predicate. This is an incomplete sentence with no language describing the content of the weather report.

This issue can be fixed by combining the two sentences to "According to the latest weather report, heavy rains will fall for the next few days."

Now, the second clause is the predicate that describes the content of the weather report. In this format, your sentence is now complete.