English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 40

In the spaces below this paragraph, write the numbers of the ten word groups that contain fragments or run-ons. Then, in the spaces between the lines, edit by making the necessary corrections. One is done for you as an example.
1 Two groups of researchers have concluded that "getting cold" has little to do with "catching a cold." 2 When the experiment was done for the first r r
exposed more than four hundred people to the cold virus. 4 Then divided those people into three groups. 5 One group, wearing winter coats, sat around in ten-degree temperatures the second group was placed in sixty-degree temperatures. 6 With the third group staying in a room. 7 Where it was eighty degrees. 8 The number of people who actually caught colds was the same. 9 In each group. 10 Other researchers repeated this experiment ten years later. 11 This time they kept some subjects cozy and warm they submerged others in a tank filled with water. 12 Whose temperature had been lowered to seventy-five degrees. 13 They made others sit around in their underwear in forty-degree temperatures. 14 The results were the same, the subjects got sick at the same rate. 15 Proving that people who get cold do not always get colds.
1. _______ 2. ___________ 3. __________ 4. __________ 5. _____________
6. ________ 7. __________ 8. __________ 9. ___________ 10. __________
HINT A series of editing tests appears on pages 603-615. You will probably find it most helpful to take these tests after reviewing the sentence-skills handbook in Part Five.