Exercise: Revising sentence fragments 2

EXERCISE 47.2

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.

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  1. Question

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    As soon as the seventy-five-year-old cellist walked onstage. The audience burst into applause.

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    The patient has only one intention. To smoke behind the doctor’s back.

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    Some reality shows feature people working in dangerous situations. Such as fishing for Alaskan king crab or logging in swamps.

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    After writing and rewriting for almost three years. She finally felt that her novel was complete.

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    In the wake of the earthquake. Relief workers tried to provide food and shelter to victims.

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    Forster stopped writing novels after A Passage to India. Which is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

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    Because only two students signed up. The class was canceled this semester.

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    I started running in April. And ran my first marathon in September.

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    We sat stunned as she delivered her monologue. A ten-minute speech about everything we had done to annoy her.

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    All primates have opposable thumbs. Which sets them apart from other mammals.