Specify if sentences are complete, fragments or run-on:
1) The surgical team recommended that surgery be performed as soon as possible, the patient, however, wanted more time to think about it.
SENTENCE FRAGMENT
2) Postoperative plan is for the patient to mobilize as tolerated.
COMPLETE SENTENCE
3) Recurrent right malignant pleural effusion.
COMPLETE SENTENCE
Thanks!
Lori
Your first and third answers are wrong.
Also -- 2) should start with the word "The."
1) The sentence "The surgical team recommended that surgery be performed as soon as possible, the patient, however, wanted more time to think about it" is actually a run-on sentence. It combines two independent clauses without proper punctuation or conjunction. To fix this, you could either separate the two clauses into two complete sentences: "The surgical team recommended that surgery be performed as soon as possible. The patient, however, wanted more time to think about it." Or you could use a coordinating conjunction like "but" to connect the clauses: "The surgical team recommended that surgery performed as soon as possible, but the patient, however, wanted more time to think about it."
2) The sentence "Postoperative plan is for the patient to mobilize as tolerated" is a complete sentence. It includes a subject (postoperative plan) and a predicate (is for the patient to mobilize as tolerated) and expresses a complete thought.
3) The sentence "Recurrent right malignant pleural effusion" is also a complete sentence. It may be considered a title or a condensed way of presenting information, but it still functions as a complete sentence since it includes a subject (recurrent right malignant pleural effusion) and does not require any additional information to convey a complete thought.