{"id":445,"date":"2016-01-28T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=445"},"modified":"2016-01-28T08:04:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T19:04:00","slug":"sentence-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2016\/01\/28\/sentence-fragments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentence fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is usually best to avoid <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/academic-writing\/sentence-fragments.php\">sentence fragments<\/a> and try to ensure that all sentences are complete (contain a verb and a subject, e.g. I will argue that\u2026). One way of checking for <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/academic-writing\/sentence-fragments.php\">sentence fragments<\/a> is to make sure the sentence makes sense in its own right. You can do this by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>reading an assignment back to front: start with the last sentence and read each sentence through to the start. If the sentence doesn\u2019t make sense, then it may need revising.<\/li>\n<li>imagining someone has just entered the room and spoken the sentence out loud. If the sentence doesn\u2019t make sense, then it may need revising.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/academic-writing\/sentence-fragments.php\">http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/academic-writing\/sentence-fragments.php<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is usually best to avoid sentence fragments and try to ensure that all sentences are complete (contain a verb and a subject, e.g. I will argue that\u2026). One way of checking for sentence fragments is to make sure the sentence makes sense in its own right. You can do this by: reading an assignment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-distance-study","category-first-year","category-internal-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}