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Waiting for hours to see you? is it a complete sentence or a fragment

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A sentence must contain both a subject and verb.

"Waiting for hours" is a gerund phrase which could be used as a subject, and "to see you" is an infinitive phrase. But both of these cannot be used as a verb in this context.

Since there is no verb, it cannot be a sentence and must be a fragment.

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