Are These Real Sentences or Fragments?
Question by LAUREN ?: Are these real sentences or fragments?
All of which you would be by not finishing school
One-third of all high school students fail to graduate
That’s what life really is; a game.
You either win or you lose
You win by staying in school and lose by, of course, dropping out.
This may sound dumb but I am just making sure they arent fragments
Best answer:
Answer by Precise Edit
It’s good that you asked. One of these IS a fragment, and 3 others are incorrect grammatically.
1. “All of which you would be by not finishing school”
This one is the fragment. The way you have it here, starting with “all of which” means that it is a description of something else. It has no subject or predicate. You will need to combine this with a complete sentence. For example, you might write “Drop-outs are poor, prone to drug and alcohol abuse, and unlikely to get career advancements, all of which you would be by not finishing school.”
2. “One-third of all high school students fail to graduate”
This one would be fine if you add a period at the end. (You might also want to check the statistics on this. Social researchers have different methods for determining non-graduation. Some methods only study students who drop-out of school and then do not return to the same school within a year. The method that looks at people who drop-out and later return to any school to finish finds a result far lower than 1/3.)
3. “That’s what life really is; a game.”
Change the semicolon to a colon, and this one will be fine, as well.
4. “You either win or you lose”
First, add a period. However, this will still be wrong. When you use “either,” you establish 2 equal options. However, look that the options you have here: 1) win, 2) you lose. This doesn’t make sense. The two parts need to be the same types of things. Now we have two choices for how to fix this sentence. We can say “either you win or you lose” or “you either win or lose.”
5. You win by staying in school and lose by, of course, dropping out.
This sentence is perfect.
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