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

Exercise 9

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.

1Two groups of researchers have concluded that "getting cold" has little to do with "catching a cold." 2When the experiment was done for the first rr  exposed more than four hundred people to the cold virus. 4Then divided those people into three groups. 5One group, wearing winter coats, sat around in ten-degree temperatures the second group was placed in sixty-degree temperatures. 6With the third group staying in a room. 7Where it was eighty degrees. 8The number of people who actually caught colds was the same. 9In each group. 10Other researchers repeated this experiment ten years later. 11This time they kept some subjects cozy and warm they submerged others in a tank filled with water. 12Whose temperature had been lowered to seventy-five degrees. 13They made others sit around in their underwear in forty-degree temperatures. 14The results were the same, the subjects got sick at the same rate. 15Proving that people who get cold do not always get colds.

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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.

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