--conventions test prior to scoring argumentative essay
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Question 1
1.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"To warn motorists of the ice forming on bridges."
Question 2
2.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"Can you prove it?"
Question 3
3.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"After rehearsal we got together and memorized our lines."
Question 4
4.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"Leroy, playing defensive end for the lions."
Question 5
5.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"In the spring, when the warm sun shines upon the fresh green beauty of the earth and when red tulips wave in the March winds."
Question 6
6.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"Although Bertha receives a large allowance"
Question 7
7.
Determine whether the group of words is a fragment or a sentence.
"That Claude told the truth"
Question 8
8.
Determine whether the group of words is a run-on sentence or a correct sentence.
"Where are Riff and Raff those cats won't come when I call them."
Question 9
9.
Determine whether the group of words is a run-on sentence or a correct sentence.
"Last year we spent our vacation in Pennsylvania. This summer we plan to drive through the Southwest."
Question 10
10.
Determine whether the group of words is a run-on sentence or a correct sentence.
"Modern medicine is greatly indebted to these pioneers."
Question 11
11.
Determine whether the group of words is a run-on sentence or a correct sentence.
"In the nineteenth century Louis Pasteur proved that germs cause disease, he also discovered several methods of killing germs."
Question 12
12.
Determine whether the group of words is a run-on sentence or a correct sentence.
"For many centuries scientists knew very little about the blood, in the early seventeenth century William Harvey's theory of blood circulation started a kind of revolution in medicine."