Question

8. Choose the correct explanation for why across the street is a fragment in the following passage: I see a café that serves sandwiches and pastries. Across the street.

A. It is missing a direct object.
                                                                                   
B. It is missing a subject and a verb.
C. It is too short.
D. It begins with a preposition.

Answer 1

The correct answer is B. It is missing a subject and a verb

Step-by-step explanation:

In grammar, a fragment occurs if a set of words lack either a subject or verb or do not express a complete idea; due to this, the construction is called a "fragment" rather than a complete sentence. In the case of the words "Across the street" the main reason this structure is a fragment is that it lacks both a subject and a verb as they only include words that can complement an idea. For example, by adding "I (subject) walked (verb) across the street" you can make this fragment a sentence. According to this, the correct explanation for why this is a fragment is "It is missing a subject and a verb".

Answer 2

The correct answer answer is option B) It is missing a subject and a verb.

Step-by-step explanation:

A complete sentence is one that has meaning on its own and can stand by itself. A sentence fragment, on the other hand, is one that has no meaning on its own since it misses mandatory parts of speech to be complete (subject and verb).

The rest of the options are incorrect since a direct object is not mandatory for a sentence to be consider complete. Also, a sentence can be complete and short ("the day is sunny").