Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions

For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.

For help with this exercise, see Chapter 16.

example

I use my computer for just about everything. From playing games to paying bills.

a. I use my computer for just about everything; from playing games to paying bills.

b. I use my computer for just about everything, from playing games to paying bills.

c. From playing games to paying bills: I use my computer for just about everything.

d. I use my computer for just about everything and from playing games to paying bills.

  1. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: In 1976, twenty-one-year-old Steven Jobs cofounded Apple Computer. In his family’s garage.

  2. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: In 1984, the team Jobs led created the Apple Macintosh computer. With its user-friendly point-and-click operating system.

  3. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: Yet one year later, Jobs was forced out of his own company. By the board of directors.

  4. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: The Mac revolutionized the computer world. Over the next few years.

  5. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: Apple’s rival Microsoft Corporation modeled its Windows operating system. On the Mac.

  6. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: After leaving Apple. Jobs started a computer company called NeXT, which developed a new cutting-edge operating system.

  7. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: A British computer programmer created the World Wide Web. On the NeXT system.

  8. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: In 1986, Jobs bought Pixar, a small computer animation studio. From the film director George Lucas.

  9. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: Pixar created the animation. For the 1995 hit movie Toy Story.

  10. Question

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    Correcting Fragments That Start with Prepositions - For each of the following, choose the sentence that best corrects the fragment.: In late 1996, Jobs stunned the computer industry by selling NeXT and its operating system. To his old company, Apple.