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.