Hello again...
 
I just delivered my short basics course, and it went -- well, I wouldn't say
swimmingly, but better than I expected.
 
A problem arose when I tried to get legal secretaries to recognize
sentence fragments.  I gave several examples of sentence fragments
and tried to explain where either subject or verb was missing by defining
the parts of speech (e.g. "Some of the attorneys working on the Phillips
case"; I defined "working" as an adjective modifying "attorneys," etc.)
Perhaps not surprisingly, I wasn't getting across to some people.
 
Any other tips on getting people to recognize sentence fragments?  This
wasn't as big a problem with the lawyers; though they tend to write in
fragments, they can usually spot them and know how to make
corrections.  But it was a problem for secretaries and proofreaders.
 
Thanks for all the tips on this project.  I'm confident I made sense to at
least half the class  ;-)
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Brenda S. Campbell
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