grammaticality - Microsoft Word's "fragments"


Microsoft Word loves underlining things I am typing with a green squiggle.


One thing which I find rather annoying is its labelling of sentences as "fragments". Here are two which it catches:



Things of this sort.


Bad timing though.



I am rather puzzled where this strong objection to fragments arose from. They seem quite normal parts of English to me. What does anybody else think?


(PS I don't need answers telling me how to switch off the grammar checker etc, I can do that already).




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