Sentence Fragments in complex construction

Question

Can someone help me with identifying sentence fragments and run-ons in complex construction such as followings:

1)Some critics of the Olympian Party candidate Zeus Pater are pleased that he has chosen Artemis Rhodes,  the prefect of Alexandria , to be his running mate; as many commentators have pointed out, her views on social issues are more in line with the Olympian Party platform than are Pater's.
2)Developed by Pennsylvania's Palatine Germans about 1750, Conestoga wagons , with high wheels capable of crossing rutted roads, muddy flats, and the nonroads of the prairie, and had a floor that was curved upward at both ends to prevnt cargo from shifting on steep grades.

The second statement is a fragment however the first is not. In such Complex constructions like ABCD,*text*,EFGH sometimes the text represent sentences that will have no subject and begin with verb(ABCD,results to gamma waves,EDFC) and sometimes text won't have a verb like sentence 2 and be okay while in sentence one no verb is there and yet it is perfectly fine

Thank you in advance

EducationAisle · Answer

Hi  Deeptanshu02 , not sure if I understand you correctly, but no sentence would be fine  without  a verb. In the first sentence, there are three verbs actually:

i)  are  in the clause  before  semicolon
ii)  have pointed  and  are  in the clauses  after  semicolon.

DanTe02 · Answer

Why is the second one a fragment? I believ "had" works as a verb in second

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EducationAisle · Answer

Yes, but the  and  is wrongly placed in the second sentence.

If we remove  and , the sentence would be fine:

Developed by Pennsylvania's Palatine Germans about 1750,Conestoga wagons, with high wheels capable of crossing rutted roads, muddy flats, and the nonroads of the prairie,   and   had a floor that was curved upward at both ends to prevent cargo from shifting on steep grades .

Think about a simpler sentence:

The person with maximum stamina, and wins the race.

Again, this is a sentence fragment. We need to remove and, to fix it:

The person with maximum stamina  , and   wins the race.

DanTe02 · Answer

Thank you so much! You're the best

gentvenus · Answer

I feel that the is wrongly placed in the second sentence.

DanTe02 · Answer

The reason why second is a fragment is because ,and is acting as a conjunction and since it is a conjunction which is used to join two independent clauses both of the sentences before and after the clause must stand as independent

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Sentence Fragments in complex construction

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