| An incomplete sentence with the absence of article (a, an, the) and verb-to-be. In general, The structure of the sentence is wrong. However, In newspapers, it's always used as headings in order to attract the public's attention. Also, area in a piece of newspaper is crowded so that headings in complete sentence is not suitable there. |
| Fragment |
| More than crumbs for early birds at 3G table. |
| The Standard |
| 7, June 2003 |
| For Example |
| Run-on |
| linking 2 main clauses without the use of conjunction. e.g. I am a boy. She is a girl. i'm a boy, she's a girl. X i'm a boy and she's a girl. O e.g. i worked hard. i failed. i worked hard, i failed. X Although i worked hard, i failed. O i worked hard, but i failed. O Run-on sentence is gramatically wrong. Learner should avoid making this kind of mistakes. |
| Finite Verb It's the main verb of the main clause. e.g. I am a boy. "am" is the finite verb. e.g. He stole my car. "stole" is the finite verb. Non-finite Verb It may be in participle form ,continuous form or to-verb. Unlike Finite Verb, Non-finite Verb is not the main verb of the main clause. e.g. I saw him running. "saw" is the finite verb and "running" is the non-finite verb. e.g. After taking a look, i found the mistakes. |