English Skills 10th Edition by John Langan, Zoe Albright

Exercise 4

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 sudden breeze shot through the windows, driving the stuffiness out 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.)
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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