Texas Bar Practice Blog |How to Overcome Sentence Construction IssuesWritten byCasey EllisJuly 22, 2024Share this PostAs a legal professional, communicating effectively is of the utmost importance. Keeping your writing grammatically correct, even in something as small as an email making lunch plans, is a great way to ensure you appear professional and put together at all times. In this grammar tip, I’ll go over a few common mistakes with sentence construction and ways to remedy them. Avoiding Sentence Fragments A sentence fragment, or incomplete sentence, is usually a phrase or clause that has become disconnected and does not express a complete thought on its own. Often, the easiest way to identify a sentence fragment is to take it out of context and ask, “does this make sense by itself?” Let’s look at a few examples. We have lots of drinks in the cooler. Including soda, water, and juice. Here, the second sentence is actually a dependent clause—if you read it out of context, you would probably ask, “what includes soda, water and juice?” Fortunately, this is an easy fix: We have lots of drinks in the cooler, including soda, water, and juice. Here’s another example: He was late to court. Because his car …