EXERCISE 38.2

EXERCISE 38.2

Identify all the sentence fragments in the following items, and explain why each is grammatically incomplete. Then revise each one in at least two ways. Example:

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  1. Question

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    Dependent-clause fragment: As soon as the seventy-five-year-old cellist walked onstage, the audience burst into applause.

  2. Question

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    Phrase fragment: The patient has only one intention, to smoke behind the doctor’s back.

  3. Question

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    Phrase fragment: Some reality shows feature people working in dangerous situations, such as fishing for Alaskan king crab or logging in swamps.

  4. Question

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    Dependent-clause fragment: After writing and rewriting for almost three years, she finally felt that her novel was complete.

  5. Question

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    Phrase fragment: In the wake of the earthquake, relief workers tried to provide food and shelter to victims.

  6. Question

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    Phrase fragment: Forster stopped writing novels after A Passage to India, one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

  7. Question

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    Dependent-clause fragment: Because only two students signed up, the class was canceled this semester.

  8. Question

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    Compound-predicate fragment: I started running in April and ran my first marathon in September.

  9. Question

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    Phrase fragment: We sat stunned as she delivered her monologue, a ten-minute speech about everything we had done to annoy her.

  10. Question

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    Dependent-clause fragment: All primates have opposable thumbs, which sets them apart from other mammals.