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Sentence to be corrected: All the while improving their society for the next generation.

It doesn't seem to be a complete sentence? Because I thought that "all the while" acts more like a conjunction, but here there would only be one clause. I must correct this sentence without any other context and without adding any new information. Any ideas for doing this?

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    You are correct. An independent clause requires a finite (tensed) verb.
    – StoneyB on hiatus
    Commented Sep 26, 2017 at 10:20

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I must correct this sentence without any other context and without adding any new information.

Not really possible. This fragment is a modifier, so it wants to modify something. What that something is could be anything.

You can convert it into a standalone sentence by adding a subject and changing improving to accordingly, but you have no way of knowing the right subject to use.

All the while they improved their society for the next generation.

Or you can use a progressive/continuous tense if you don't want to change any of the existing words:

All the while they were improving their society for the next generation.

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