Avoiding Sentence Fragments Containing Verbals but not Complete Verbs

Directions:

Identify the items below by using the following code:

            F      sentence fragment                  C       complete sentence

Example:

_C_     Cirrus clouds are high, wispy clouds containing a large number of tiny ice crystals.

_____ 1. In 1787 Delaware becoming the first state to ratify the Constitution.

_____ 2. Big Bertha was a huge cannon used by the Germans in World War I.

_____ 3. A flock of starlings known as a murmuration.

_____ 4. Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal glasses.

_____ 5. Like Washington, DC, Brasilia, Brazil, is a planned community.

_____ 6. How to spell embarrass and ukulele.

_____ 7. A ten-gallon hat actually holds less than one gallon.

_____ 8. About one out of every three new houses to have a garage with an automatic door opener.

_____ 9. A van carrying seven or eight people and a great deal of luggage.

_____ 10. The Environmental Protection Agency recently reporting a decline in toxic pollution.

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