It was hard/firm, nonreducible, there were no bowel sounds within the hernia.
A) complete sentence
B) fragment
C) run-on
It does sound like it could be A, but at the same time it sounds like a fragment
It's a fragment.
Actually this is a run-on.
To determine whether the given sentence is a complete sentence, a fragment, or a run-on, we can analyze its structure and content.
The sentence provided includes a descriptive statement about a hernia, but it lacks a subject and a complete verb. This suggests that it is a fragment rather than a complete sentence. Fragments usually express an incomplete thought and do not function independently as a sentence.
To transform the given fragment into a complete sentence, we could add a subject and a verb, such as:
"The hernia was hard/firm, nonreducible, and there were no bowel sounds within it."
Note that if we were to combine this fragment with another related sentence without proper punctuation or coordination, it would result in a run-on sentence, which is considered grammatically incorrect.