Question

Read this sentence fragment:

Except two bandages and a flashlight.

Which revision is a complete sentence?


Leaving nothing except two bandages and a flashlight.


Gone, except two bandages and a flashlight.


Those darned raccoons had eaten everything in his backpack except two bandages and a flashlight.


With the exception of two bandages and a flashlight.

Answer 1

"Those darned raccoons had eaten everything in his backpack except two bandages and a flashlight."

This is the only complete sentence — it has a subject ("Those darned raccoons") and a verb ("had eaten"). The others are sentence fragments (participial or prepositional phrases).