English Skills with Readings 9th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 3

Underline the -ing fragment in each of the items that follow. Then make it a sentence by rewriting it, using the method described in parentheses.

EXAMPLE

A thunderstorm was brewing. A sudden breeze shot through the windows.

Driving the stuffiness out of the room.

(Add the fragment to the preceding sentence.)

A suddenbreezeshot through the windows,drivingthe stuffinessout of the room.

(In the example, a comma is used to set off "driving the stuffiness out of the room," which is extra material placed at the end of the sentence.)

1.      Sweating under his heavy load. Brian staggered up the stairs to his apartment. He felt as though his legs were crumbling beneath him.

(Add the fragment to the sentence that comes after it.)

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2.       He works 10 hours a day. Then going to class for 2½ hours. It is no wonder he writes fragments.

(Connect the fragment by adding the subject he and changing going to the proper form of the verb, goes.)

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3.     Charlotte loved the classic movie Gone with the Wind, but Clyde hated it. His chief objection being that it lasted four hours.

(Correct the fragment by changing being to the proper verb form, was.)

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Step 1 of 3

-ing and to Fragments (420-421)

1.?Sweating under his heavy load, Brian staggered up the stairs to his apartment.