Which of the following is a phrase fragment?
A) Since the weather forecast is beautiful this weekend.
B) Let's ask our parents if we can go tubing.
C) Did you just say that?
D) A great dog, that’s what we have!
I think the answer is A because there is no subject in A, correct?
Also is A classified as an adverbial clause?
Best Answer
A) is the correct choice, but not because it lacks a subject: its subject is the weather forecast.
This cannot properly be described as a “phrase fragment”, which is not a term which has any fixed meaning. It is a “sentence fragment”—a string of words which not a complete sentence.
It is in fact more than a complete sentence: it is an ordinary sentence, The weather forecast is beautiful this weekend which is introduced by the ‘subordinating conjunction’ or ‘conjunctive preposition’ since. That word marks the following clause as a subordinate part of a main or ‘matrix’ clause: in this case, as you say, a clause playing an adverbial role in ‘modifying’ the entire matrix clause.