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.