Asked by Makayla

What kind of sentence error is demonstrated below?

Overconfidence has cost us several games this year. For instance, our loss to a less experienced team several weeks ago.

comma splice
both errors found
fragment
no error found

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Fragment.

The second "sentence" is an incomplete fragment — it lacks a main verb/predicate. Corrected: "For instance, we lost to a less experienced team several weeks ago."