Question

What does the following sentence need? Planning on getting married for over a year.

Question options:

The sentence is correct.

The group of words is a dependent clause and can't stand alone as a sentence.

The group of words is a phrase and is missing a verb; it cannot stand alone as a sentence.

The group of words is a run-on or comma splice and needs a conjunction or semicolon

Answer 1

The group of words is a phrase and is missing a verb; it cannot stand alone as a sentence.

Step-by-step explanation:

"Planning on getting married for over a year" is not a sentence. It doesn't have a subject and is missing a "helping verb." It is a phrase because it doesn't have a complete thought.

It is the helping verb that helps the main verb "planning" in order to describe whether the action is happening in the past, present or future.

Examples of helping verbs: is, are, was, were, been, have, had, has.

To make the example into a sentence, you may say:

"She's been planning on getting married for over a year."