Review the passage:
Marina, the beautiful mermaid, wanted some
tuna salad. But had a small problem since she was allergic to celery. At
Sammy’s Sub Shop, Marina hoped to find tuna salad free of this dangerous
vegetable. Flopping across the tiled floor to the counter. Marina placed
her order and then checked her sandwich for celery. Not noticing, however,
the spoiled mayonnaise. At five o'clock that evening, Marina became
violently ill with food poisoning. When a lifeguard at the beach discovered
the problem, he called 911. Even though the mermaid had fishy breath. A
handsome paramedic gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Wailing like a
sick dog, the ambulance sped off to the hospital. Where the doctor on call
refused to treat a sea creature with a scaly tail. A kind nurse, however,
had more sympathy. When this caregiver returned with a liquid antacid.
Marina drank the entire bottle, feeling an immediate
improvement. The mermaid told the rude
doctor never to swim in the ocean. For she would order hungry sharks to
bite off the doctor's legs. While sharp-clawed crabs plucked out his
eyes. Tossing her long hair, Marina thanked the nurse for the antacid.
And took a mint from David, the handsome paramedic.
A fragment will not contain a main clause. A main clause follows this pattern:
Subject + Verb = Complete Thought.
In the highlighted item, Marina is the subject, and drank is the verb. This pair makes a complete thought, so you do indeed have a main clause. This item is a sentence, not a fragment.