Deck 10: Avoiding Sentence Fragments

Question 1

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Swimming across the lake

A) is good exercise.
B) and bicycling through the woods.
C) once a week .

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Because I kept trying

A) I succeeded.
B) and succeeding.
C) to succeed.

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
While I ran a marathon.

A) complete
B) fragment

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Several apartment buildings were destroyed by the hurricane.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 5

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
My puppy ate an entire barbequed chicken.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 6

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
The movie we saw

A) last night.
B) several times.
C) cost $10.

Question 7

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Since Emily received her driver's license.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 8

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
The seamstress took his measurements.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 9

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
After the police officer stopped the car

A) at a busy intersection.
B) and asked the driver for his license.
C) the driver rolled down his window.

Question 10

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
The bird in the cage.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 11

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
On the other side of the computer room.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 12

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
While I waited in line at the grocery store.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 13

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
The whale in the ocean.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 14

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Strolling by the river

A) slowly.
B) is relaxing.
C) one day.

Question 15

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Henry purchased four tickets to the hip-hop concert.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 16

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
After a long day at work.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 17

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Purchased the sweater with green and white stripes.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 18

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
We sat down to eat a slice of pizza.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 19

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Tony took the train to Salt Lake City for the weekend.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 20

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Eight bottles of Coca-Cola.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 21

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Although Wilma moved here only a year ago. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 22

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Choosing a new career is difficult. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 23

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Celebrating Kwanzaa with my friends. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 24

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Climbers inching up the mountain. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 25

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Drivers who get speeding tickets. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 26

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Whenever cell phones ring in the library

A) and disturb students.
B) they disturb students.
C) disturbing students.

Question 27

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
They've been playing good jazz for years. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 28

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Because you don't watch CNN. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 29

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
The clothes in the dryer

A) are wrinkled.
B) and the dishes in the sink.
C) for the last two days.

Question 30

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Skateboarding down Jefferson Avenue

A) with my friends.
B) and turning onto Main Street.
C) is dangerous.

Question 31

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
The salsa was too salty. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 32

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
During her Lamaze class. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 33

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
The pilot waved. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 34

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
A fly swatter, a baseball mitt, and a box of raisins

A) in his backpack.
B) were the items stolen.
C) left at the campsite.

Question 35

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
The salesperson who gets the highest commissions. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 36

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
I quit! _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 37

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
All over campus. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 38

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
The trailer on the next lot. _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 39

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
Is she nominated? _____

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 40

Select the answer that will turn each of the following fragments into complete sentences.
An evening that I will never forget

A) as long as I live.
B) is my college graduation.
C) and never surpass.

Question 41

Select the answer that identifies the subject of each sentence.
Sophia marched in the Labor Day parade.

A) Sophia
B) Labor Day
C) parade

Question 42

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
The damage caused by the tornado.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 43

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Walked along the river bank.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 44

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
The article in the newspaper.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 45

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Curtis swam three miles on Tuesday.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 46

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Lives in Rhode Island.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 47

Select the answer that identifies the subject of each sentence.
We laughed at the birds at the feeder.

A) We
B) birds
C) feeder

Question 48

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
She waved goodbye.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 49

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Until drunk drivers are prosecuted.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 50

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Until you have children.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 51

Select the answer that identifies the subject of each sentence.
Anna was studying medicine at Duke University.

A) Anna
B) medicine
C) Duke University

Question 52

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Having a clearance sale on furniture.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 53

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Marty loves to eat grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 54

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Since they closed the local grocery store.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 55

Select the answer that identifies the subject of each sentence.
Will you go to the market and buy some fish for dinner?

A) dinner
B) fish
C) you

Question 56

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
A pair of red shoes.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 57

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Flying to South Dakota.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 58

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Aunt Rosie retiring after working for thirty years.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 59

Select the answer that identifies the subject of each sentence.
The family moved to a house in Atlanta, Georgia.

A) family
B) house
C) Atlanta, Georgia

Question 60

Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
During the geology class.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 61

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Although these are common features of modern-day automobile driving.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 62

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Her artistic photographs of workers making steel gained her fame.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 63

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
And never learned to drive a car.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 64

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Can you imagine driving without stop signs, traffic circles, or one-way streets?

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 65

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
After graduating from college, she became an industrial photographer.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 66

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Six years before her death in 1971, she named one of ten outstanding living American women of the twentieth century.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 67

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Which was an unusual job for a woman in the 1920s.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 68

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
After he had written numerous articles about street safety, Eno earned an international reputation and consulted with officials in Paris to end their traffic headaches.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 69

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Tired of reckless drivers and time-consuming traffic snarls.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 70

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
They are still essential today.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 71

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
She kept her crippling condition a secret.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 72

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
By the time she was twenty-four years old, hired by Fortune magazine and later by Life magazine.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 73

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
In response to traffic jams caused by horse-drawn carriages.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 74

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Eno also developed taxi stands and safety islands for pedestrians as well as a handbook of traffic rules.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 75

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Margaret Bourke-White a pioneer in the field of photojournalism.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 76

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Although Eno's sensible plans for regulating traffic were outlined before cars were invented.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 77

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Bourke-White documented the 1934 "dust bowl" drought in the United States, World War II bombing raids in Europe, the fall of the British Empire in India, and racial injustice in South Africa.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 78

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Although Bourke-White suffered from Parkinson's disease toward the end of her brilliant career.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 79

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
William Phelps Eno created them in 1900.

A) complete
B) fragment

Question 80

The following sentences form a paragraph. Proofread them for sentence fragments. Select "complete" if the sentence is complete or "fragment" if the sentence is a fragment.
Ironically, Eno himself preferred travel by horseback.

A) complete
B) fragment