EXERCISE 1

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EXERCISE 1

NOTE: Pay close attention to what you are being asked to do in each exercise, and do only as much revising as is necessary. Take special care to preserve the meaning of the original material. If necessary, invent reasonable details.

Refer to the advice in "Avoid Sentence Fragments," and rewrite each of the following sentences to eliminate sentence fragments.

  1. Nine bones from a Pacific walrus that were found in a coffin beneath St. Pancras Railway Station in London.
  2. The physical impossibility of knowing both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time.