English Skills with Readings 7th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 34

Fragments and Run-Ons
The word groups below are numbered 1 through 20. In the space provided for each, write C if a word group is a complete sentence, write F if it is a fragment, and write RO if it is a run-on. Then correct the errors.
1 My sister asked my parents and me to give up television for two weeks. 2 As an experiment for her psychology class. 3 We were too embarrassed to refuse, we reluctantly agreed. 4 The project began on Monday morning. 5 To help us resist temptation. 6 My sister unplugged the living room set. 7 That evening the four of us sat around the dinner table much longer than usual, we found new things to talk about. 8 Later we played board games for several hours, we all went to bed pleased with ourselves. 9 Everything went well until Thursday evening of that first week. 10 My sister went out after dinner. 11 Explaining that she would be back about ten o'clock. 12 The rest of us then decided to turn on the television. 13 Just to watch the network news. 14 We planned to unplug the set before my sister got home. 15 And pretend nothing had happened. 16 We were settled down comfortably in our respective chairs, unfortunately, my sister walked in at that point and burst out laughing. 17 "Aha! I caught you," she cried. 18 She explained that part of the experiment was to see if we would stick to the agreement. 19 Especially during her absence. 20 She had predicted we would weaken, it turned out she was right.
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