Guide to spelling, punctuation and grammar

WRITING IN SENTENCES
Consider the following. 
1. I am.
2. Because the voters turned against the party.
3. Making the reasons for the war very clear indeed.
4. Judges must be independent of government so that they can make
decisions free of political influence.
5. Although efforts were made to patch up the quarrel.
6. The country declared war on the day after the invasion.
Three of the above are complete sentences and three are not. Sentences
one, four and six are complete sentences because they make sense on
their own.
Examples two, three and five are incomplete sentences because they
clearly do not make sense standing on their own. 
Example two could be an answer in speech to a question, but it would
not be appropriate to use an incomplete sentence like this in an essay.
Example three, similarly, could be a comment as a response to
something that has been said.
Example four lacks a main statement and is only a clause, not a complete
sentence.
You must be able to write in complete sentences in formal essays. If you
have any doubt about a sentence you have written, read it over ‘in your
head’ and judge from the sense whether it is complete or not.
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