EXERCISE 19–4Sentence fragments
Click on Sentence if the word group is a sentence or on Fragment if it is a fragment. Before working the exercise, read the example, which is the first sentence in the paragraph from which the sentences are taken. Click Save to save your work and return to it. Click Submit to see your score and item-by-item explanations; your activity will be recorded in your instructor's gradebook.
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Before they toured America and became world famous, the Beatles played at a Liverpool club called the Cavern.
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Where they hung out together, played night and day, and attracted many fans.
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A Liverpool disk jockey called them “fantastic,” saying that they had “resurrected original rock ’n’ roll.”
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A local music critic who became their manager, Brian Epstein, turned them into a professional group.
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Also promoted them, arranged club dates for them, and badgered record companies for them.
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When the Beatles were introduced in America, everyone wanted copies of the original singles.
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“Love Me Do,” “Please Please Me,” and “From Me to You.”
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Crowds of screaming teenagers surrounded the Beatles wherever they went.
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Determined to touch one or more of these famous music makers.
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10 of 10
Reporters observing the conduct of fans at Beatles concerts found that they had to invent a new word to describe the wild, almost insane behavior of the fans: That word was “Beatlemania.”
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