Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 73

Each word group in the following student paragraph is numbered. In the space provided, write C if a word group is a complete sentence; write F if it is a fragment. You will find eight fragments in the paragraph.
________ 1. 1 I'm starting to think that there is no safe place left. 2 To ride
________ 2. a bicycle. 3 When I try to ride on the highway, in order to
________ 3. go to school. 4 I feel like a rabbit being pursued by predators.
________ 4. 5 Drivers whip past me at high speeds. 6 And try to see how
________ 5. close they can get to my bike without actually killing me.
________ 6. 7 When they pull onto the shoulder of the road or make a
________ 7. right turn. 8 Drivers completely ignore my vehicle. 9 On city
________ 8. streets, I feel more like a cockroach than a rabbit. 10 Drivers
________ 9. in the city despise bicycles. 11 Regardless of an approaching
________ 10. bike rider. 12 Street-side car doors will unexpectedly open.
________ 11. 13 Frustrated drivers who are stuck in traffic will make nasty
________ 12. comments. 14 Or shout out obscene propositions. 15 Even
________ 13. pedestrians in the city show their disregard for me. 16 While
________ 14. jaywalking across the street. 17 The pedestrian will treat
________ 15. me, a law-abiding bicyclist, to a withering look of disdain.
________ 16. 18 Pedestrians may even cross my path deliberately. 19 As if to
________ 17. prove their higher position in the pecking order of the city
________ 18. streets. 20 Today, bicycling can be hazardous to the rider's
________ 19. health.
________ 20.
Now (on separate paper) correct the fragments you have found. Attach the fragments to sentences that come before or after them or make whatever other change is needed to turn each fragment into a sentence.