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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | When basketball became my favourite sport. |
| | B) | Basketball has become my favourite sport. |
| | C) | My favourite sport, basketball. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Turning left at the light. |
| | B) | When I turned left at the light. |
| | C) | Turn left at the light. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | The country in which my grandmother was born. |
| | B) | The country in which my grandmother was born is Syria. |
| | C) | Syria, the country of my grandmother's birth. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Having been raised in India. |
| | B) | My father was raised in India. |
| | C) | Because my father was raised in India. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | My Spanish professor, who emigrated from Cuba. |
| | B) | Having emigrated from Cuba, my Spanish professor. |
| | C) | My Spanish professor emigrated from Cuba. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | The instructor spoke about computers. |
| | B) | The instructor who spoke about computers and other electronic learning tools. |
| | C) | Having spoken about computers and other electronic learning tools. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Caracas is the capital of Venezuela, which is located in the northern part of South America. |
| | B) | Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, which is located in the northern part of South America. |
| | C) | When Caracas became the capital of Venezuela, which is located in the northern part of South America. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Abraham Lincoln, America's sixteenth president. |
| | B) | America's sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated shortly after the end of the Civil War. |
| | C) | Assassinated shortly after the end of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, America's sixteenth president. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | When I finish shovelling snow and resting for several hours. |
| | B) | When I finish shovelling snow and rest for several hours. |
| | C) | When I finish shovelling snow, I rest for several hours. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Because of his debilitating illness, Jeremy sometimes misses work. |
| | B) | Because he suffers from a debilitating illness and sometimes misses work. |
| | C) | Suffering from a debilitating illness and sometimes missing work. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | When Roberto's company went out of business, deciding to start his own. |
| | B) | When Roberto's company went out of business. |
| | C) | When Roberto's company went out of business, he decided to start his own. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Angry about the way my sister treated my friends. |
| | B) | Because I was angry about the way my sister treated my friends. |
| | C) | When I became angry about the way my sister treated my friends. |
| | D) | I was angry about the way my sister treated my friends. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | Spoon River Anthology, a collection of fascinating poems that were written by Edgar Lee Masters. |
| | B) | Each poem spoken by a dead person. |
| | C) | Buried in the cemetery of a small American village that Edgar Lee Masters created in his mind as the setting for this book. |
| | D) | The people who tell us about their lives in these poems are based upon real people from Edgar Lee Masters's hometown. |
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Which of the following is a complete sentence? |
| | A) | In Spoon River Anthology, which is by Edgar Lee Masters. |
| | B) | The characters tell us much about their town, their friends, and their neighbours. |
| | C) | And about life in their times. |
| | D) | Revealing long-kept secrets. |
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Which of the following is a fragment? |
| | A) | If you're writing about Queen Mary of Britain, make sure your readers know which queen you are referring to. |
| | B) | Are you referring to Mary Tudor of England, who became known as "Bloody Mary"? |
| | C) | There is also Mary II. |
| | D) | Who was married to William of Orange and whose title was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland. |
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Which of the following is a fragment? |
| | A) | During the chemistry examination on Tuesday morning, the room was silent and all of the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
| | B) | During the chemistry examination on Tuesday morning, while the room was silent and all of the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems that Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
| | C) | It was Tuesday morning, and the room was silent as the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems on the chemistry examination, which Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
| | D) | The room was silent and all of the students concentrated hard on the difficult problems on the chemistry examination, which Professor Mendoza had warned them about. |
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Which of the following is a fragment? |
| | A) | Perhaps the most notorious concentration camps in history are Auschwitz and Dachau. |
| | B) | Auschwitz is in Poland, Dachau in Germany. |
| | C) | Along with many other death camps built by the Nazis. |
| | D) | Auschwitz and Dachau were used to imprison and kill millions of Jews, Poles, and other groups the Nazis called "undesirable." |
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Which of the following is a fragment? |
| | A) | Nagasaki, Japan, is important for two reasons. |
| | B) | It was the first Japanese city to trade with the West. |
| | C) | Also, at the end of World War II, the target of an atomic attack by a U.S. bomber. |
| | D) | Seventy-five thousand people were killed or hurt in this air raid. |
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Which of the following is a fragment? |
| | A) | The United States Congress, which is the legislative branch of the federal government. |
| | B) | Congress is made up of two houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives. |
| | C) | Senators are elected every six years. |
| | D) | Representatives serve two-year terms. |
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Which of the following is a fragment? |
| | A) | The vernal equinox marks the beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| | B) | The autumnal equinox, which in 1995 fell on September 23. |
| | C) | It marks the beginning of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| | D) | On these dates, day and night are exactly the same length. |
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