Correcting Sentence Fragments with Missing or Incomplete Verbs
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.
___1. The movie begins at three o’clock in the morning.
___2. A plastic hairbrush melting in the heat of the hair
dryer.
___3. Precautions to prevent accidental poisoning.
___4. Coastal erosion constantly takes place.
___5. Bob Denison often gets his picture taken with
celebrities.
___6. Fire ants commonly swarm on electrical relay
switches, causing short circuits in air conditioners.
___7. Cooler, drier air arriving this morning and a shower
possible this afternoon.
___8. Storehouses, workshops, and stables unchanged for
more than 2,000 years.
___9. A bomb exploding in the newspaper office.
___10. The three-year-old twins to undergo blood tests.