Avoiding Sentence Fragments Containing Verbals but not Complete Verbs Answers

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.

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

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

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

_C_     4. Benjamin Franklin invented bifocal glasses.

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

_F_      6. How to spell embarrass and ukulele.

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

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

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

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

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