Question

Maria's long dark hair.

This is best described as a ...

a. Sentence fragment
b. Run-on sentence
c. Grammatically correct sentence

Answer 1

it’s A because if i was a run on sentence it would look like this “Maria’s long dark hair had lots of locks and a lot of cool things it could do like, it could go into braids, and it could go it a ponytail”. if it was a grammatically correct sentence it would look like this, “Maria’s long dark hair was in french braids today.” so that leaves a sentence fragment.

Answer 2

a. Sentence fragment

Step-by-step explanation:

A sentence fragment is an incomplete sentence that could possibly be a part of another sentence. We can determine the sentence is not grammatically correct if it lacks a subject or a verb.

“Maria's long dark hair.” is the statement that lacks the verb. There is not an action performed by or on Maria’s hair. This is just partly information about the state of Maria’s hair, and not the full sentence.

For example, the full sentences would be:

• Maria’s hair is long and dark. – in this example ‘is’ is the verb, and we learn about the hair from the full sentence that has both subject and a verb.
• Maria’s long dark hair is shining. - in this example we have the verb shining, meaning it performs some action. We also have the verb and the subject in this sentence, which makes it correct.