Correcting Sentence Fragments with Missing or Incomplete Verbs Answers

Directions:

Identify each of the items below by using the following code:

            S   complete sentence                 F   sentence fragment

Example:

_F_      The Fitzgeralds actually installing a fireplace in their bathroom.

_S_1. The movie begins at three o’clock in the morning.

_F_2. A plastic hairbrush melting in the heat of the hair dryer.

_F_3. Precautions to prevent accidental poisoning.

_S_4. Coastal erosion constantly takes place.

_S_5. Bob Denison often gets his picture taken with celebrities.

_S_6. Fire ants commonly swarm on electrical relay switches, causing short circuits in air conditioners.

_F_7. Cooler, drier air arriving this morning and a shower possible this afternoon.

_F_8. Storehouses, workshops, and stables unchanged for more than 2,000 years.

_F_9. A bomb exploding in the newspaper office.

_F_10. The three-year-old twins to undergo blood tests.

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