{"id":5568,"date":"2017-05-01T12:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/the-sentence-fragment-fully-fragmented\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T12:14:41","slug":"the-sentence-fragment-fully-fragmented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/05\/01\/the-sentence-fragment-fully-fragmented\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sentence Fragment Fully Fragmented"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Walter\"<\/a>I was taught to avoid sentence fragments. And that is what I taught my students.  But being as flexible and reasonable as you all know me to be, I would allow the occasional exception. Suppose you have just crafted a paragraph summarizing Kant's views on space and time. I would allow you a 'Thus Kant' as coda. There is no call to be as hidebound as a schoolmarm.<\/span><\/p>\n

But recently we have been witnessing the fragmentation of the sentence fragment. Example<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Trump, meantime, is breaking all the china in Washington as he works to reinvent the wheel. Every. Single. Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

'Every single day' is a sentence fragment. 'Every. Single. Day.' is a sentence fragment fully fragmented.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am assuming, hopefully, that no one will take the further step of breaking words into their constituent syllables.<\/span><\/p>\n

Full-on fragmentation cannot be fairly laid at the doorstep of Hemingway any more than conceptual relativism can be fairly laid at the doorstep of Kant. But these gentlemen unwittingly played a role. Or it might be better to say that they set the stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

I may from now on use Jeff Dunham's 'Walter' puppet to signal language rants.  Don't get too excited over my rants. After all, a rant, by definition, involves a certain exaggeration of umbrage. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was taught to avoid sentence fragments. And that is what I taught my students.  But being as flexible and reasonable as you all know me to be, I would allow the occasional exception. Suppose you have just crafted a paragraph summarizing Kant's views on space and time. I would allow you a 'Thus Kant' … Continue reading “The Sentence Fragment Fully Fragmented”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}