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Examples of Sentence Fragments

Daniel Boone was a man, yes, a big man. With an eye like an eagle, and as tall as an old oak tree.

[The grouping in red is a noun phrase without a verb.]

Daniel Boone visited me in a dream recently. Which, luckily, also included Davey Crockett and Natty Bumpo.

[The grouping in red has a subject and verb--which...included--but which cannot be used as the subject of an independent clause.]