Question

are these complete sentences, or is one of them a fragment?
sandy cheeks begged her neighbor to lend her
platform shoes. which were the hottest new fad at
the disco club.
complete sentences \t\tfragment

Explanation:

A complete sentence needs a subject and a predicate (a main verb or verb phrase that shows the action or state of the subject). Let's analyze each part:

1. "Sandy Cheeks begged her neighbor to lend her platform shoes." – This has a subject ("Sandy Cheeks") and a predicate ("begged her neighbor to lend her platform shoes"). The verb "begged" is the main verb, so this is a complete sentence.

1. "Which were the hottest new fad at the disco club." – This starts with "which," which is a relative pronoun. It doesn't have a clear, independent subject and predicate that makes a complete thought on its own. It's a dependent clause (a relative clause) that's being used as a sentence fragment because it can't stand alone as a complete sentence. It needs to be attached to a main clause (like "Sandy Cheeks begged her neighbor to lend her platform shoes, which were the hottest new fad at the disco club") to be part of a complete sentence.

So, one of them is a fragment.

Answer:

Fragment