Sentence Fragment:s

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Sentence Fragment:s

by aditya.j » Wed Mar 14, 2012 2:34 am
This is a question quoted from Knewton:

To sail across the Atlantic ocean, a task that Desmond had wanted to complete since he was very young, a difficult trip to make.

Now i understand that this is a fragment:

Although i got this one right, i thought that the modifier was "a task that Desmond had wanted to complete since he was very young" because it is modifying the the act of sailing across the ocean?...please correct me if im wrong.. (Just wanted to understand whats the modifier, and whats the main subject)

Can we make the sentence complete by changing the sentence into: To sail across the Atlantic ocean, a task that Desmond had wanted to complete since he was very young, "was" a difficult trip to make.

Does this make sense?

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by Jim@StratusPrep » Wed Mar 14, 2012 4:15 am
If you changed the sentence to how you have it written, you should be able tO take the modifier out and have the sentence still make sense.

To sail across the Atlantic ocean "was" a difficult trip to make.

The problem is that there is no subject, so you cannot make this change. The statement is still a fragment.
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by aditya.j » Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:08 pm
Thanks a lot Jim!

So if we were to make this a complete sentence along with a subject, what would that sentence be?
Just need some clarity here..

Best Regards,

aJ

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