Identifying Sentence Fragments

Multiple Choice

A) Maria was not watching her plate of barbecue very carefully. B) So Santana, the family beagle, snatched a chicken leg hanging over the edge. C ) As baked beans and potato salad slid onto Maria's new sandals.

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A) Ever since Andre peeked at Melissa's paper during the biology exam. B) Guilt has consumed him. C) Even the blueberries floating in his cereal bowl seem like the accusing eyes of Professor Gregory, his biology instructor.

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A) James opened the door of his cluttered refrigerator. B)Which caused a pint of blueberries to fall to the floor. C)The fruit bounced and rolled everywhere in an explosion of indigo.

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A) Richie loves to walk his friends' dogs at Lake Eola Park. B) For example, Kim's Labrador retriever Murphy or Gary's bulldog Kembo. C) Beautiful women, Richie has learned, gravitate toward guys with cute dogs.

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A)Head down, Lela stared at the textbook on her desk. B) She understood the fragment practice that Professor Markham was reviewing in class. C) But was too shy to raise her hand to volunteer an answer.

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A) Joshua found the pressure from the gas in his stomach unbearable. B) Although he did not want to be rude in the middle of geology class. C) An explosive belch erupted from his mouth.

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A) Many people love to dance the rumba while few enjoy the tango. b) These dances are both

taught at Buba’s School of Dance. C) Which is located on the corner of Holmes and Tree

Streets in downtown Morville. D)The tango is predicted to make a comeback in the coming

year

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

Identify the fragment.

A) Growing a garden requires a great deal of diligence on the part of the gardener. B) There are

many things to be done to ensure the garden’s success. C) Chores such as watering,

weeding, and fertilizing. D) If a gardener does all these things, the garden will be a success.

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a complete sentence?

• Spoon River Anthology, a collection of fascinating poems that were written by Edgar Lee Masters.

• Each poem spoken by a dead person.

• Buried in the cemetery of a small American village that Edgar Lee Masters created in his mind as the setting for this book.

• The people who tell us about their lives in these poems are based upon real people from Edgar Lee Masters's hometown.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is a complete sentence?

• Located along the path of the sun, moon, and major planets.

• Are the twelve constellations of the Zodiac.

• A constellation is a group of stars.

• To which names have been given according to the shapes these groups seem to form.