Unit
Test 2: Part A (Identifying Fragments)
Read the following section in your Bedford
Handbook before you start the exercises:
Section 19. Yes, all of
it!
Also, make sure to try out some of the practice problems online with the Hacker website
(Dave’s email is david-holper@redwood.edu for the login). Then go to
Grammatical Sentences and do the exercises under Sentence Fragments.
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(Directions:
underline the fragment. Then correct
each fragment by connecting it to the main clause or revising the fragment so
that it can stand independently.)
1) Unlike what you may have
heard, while we fiddled.
2) In a torrent of haste, I
took the shuttle to the airport. Which was built in the 1950s.
3) Herbert owned a wonderful
piano. A Steinway grand that dominated
his living room.
4) The walls and floors of the palace
lined with paintings and tapestries stretching off as far as the eye could see.
5) An awful mess of coffee
grounds, banana peels, rotten fruit rinds, slimy tomatoes, and dirty Kleenex.
6)
To find the best silly jokes possible.
Dave bought a book on the web.
7)
We need to find answers to our annoying questions. Such as where does that lint in our belly
buttons come from.
8)
Without much hope of finding an answer, let alone the ring. We set out on our journey to Mordor.
9)
A very small amount placed on the tip of a cat's tongue.
10)
Starting from A and heading toward Z. We
went through the alphabet looking for the guilty letter.