English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 118

Identify the sentence-skills mistakes at the underlined spots in the paragraph that follows. From the box below, choose the letter that describes each mistake and write it in the space provided. The same mistake may appear more than once.
a. fragment
b. run-on
c. irregular verb mistake
d. missing comma after introductory words
e. apostrophe mistake
f. dangling modifier
g. missing quotation marks
A Horrifying Moment
The most horrifying moment of my life occurred in the dark hallway of my building.
Though the hallway light was
managed to find my apartment door. However, I could not find the keyhole with my door key. I then pulled a book of matches from my pocket.
the entire book of matches
into flames. I flicked the matches away but not before my coat sleeve
fire. Within seconds, my arm was like a torch.
flames began to sear my skin. I was quickly going into shock.
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door opened and a voice cried out,
I was pulled through an apartment and put under a bathroom shower, which extinguished the flames. I suffered third-degree burns on my
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felt lucky to escape with my life.
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