Sentence examples for incomplete sentence from inspiring English sources

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incomplete sentence

noun

A group of words which appears to convey only part of a complete thought, lacking some component which is grammatically necessary to complete the thought.

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First of all, I want to give a shoutout to what I think was the most meaningful moment in last night's season finale: the scene where Marnie enters Hannah's apartment to find Hannah's laptop open to the first, incomplete sentence of her ebook.

Am noticing, and admiring, a technique SH has of doing a particular kind of incomplete sentence, such as in (page 182 my copy, 4 pages in on Chapter 23): "It is quite out of the question, let us in for, no end to it if we once, interference in the internal affairs of, do more harm than good".

Table 1 Lists of linguistic and prosodic features and their IDs   Category ID Features Linguistic features Hesitation and 1.1 Question ratio   puzzlement features         1.2 Filler ratio     1.3 Incomplete sentence       ratio   POS-based features 2.1 Verb freq.

Test-takers read an incomplete sentence that contains four choices somewhere in the sentence and an assigned word can be inserted in one of the four choices in the sentence.

Did you type an incomplete sentence on your loan application?

Since X (NGO) started giving us this aid (RUTF) sent from government and with the help of the God (incomplete sentence)….

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And Lacy's fifth-grade teacher would no doubt wince at the profusion of incomplete sentences.

They also lack the incomplete sentences, hesitations and interruptions typical of real conversations.

Some shows were so aimless, with their shouting and incomplete sentences, that we would lose track of the argument.

"But if they send out a memo with grammatical errors or incomplete sentences it reflects on them.

If they speak to him in incomplete sentences, he makes them start again, even when they ask to go to the bathroom.

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