Correct the following fragments: 1. Whenever I am waiting for an important phone call. 2. If I can finish writing my paper tonight. I can go to the gym with you tomorrow. 3. When I... Correct the following fragments: 1. Whenever I am waiting for an important phone call. 2. If I can finish writing my paper tonight. I can go to the gym with you tomorrow. 3. When I want to brighten up my day, I buy a bunch of colourful flowers. Such as carnations or daisies. 4. At the end of the movie, when the battle began. 5. Although I had never played soccer before. 6. In addition, the job is part-time.
Understand the Problem
The question requires correcting sentence fragments to form complete sentences. Each number presents an incomplete thought or grammatical error that needs to be fixed by adding missing elements or restructuring clauses.
Answer
Here are the corrected fragments: 1. Whenever I am waiting for an important phone call, I get anxious. 2. If I can finish writing my paper tonight, I can go to the gym with you tomorrow. 3. When I want to brighten up my day, I buy a bunch of colourful flowers, such as carnations or daisies. 4. At the end of the movie, the battle began. 5. Although I had never played soccer before, I was excited to try. 6. In addition, the job is part-time.
- Whenever I am waiting for an important phone call, I get anxious.
- If I can finish writing my paper tonight, I can go to the gym with you tomorrow.
- When I want to brighten up my day, I buy a bunch of colourful flowers, such as carnations or daisies.
- At the end of the movie, the battle began.
- Although I had never played soccer before, I was excited to try.
- In addition, the job is part-time.
Answer for screen readers
- Whenever I am waiting for an important phone call, I get anxious.
- If I can finish writing my paper tonight, I can go to the gym with you tomorrow.
- When I want to brighten up my day, I buy a bunch of colourful flowers, such as carnations or daisies.
- At the end of the movie, the battle began.
- Although I had never played soccer before, I was excited to try.
- In addition, the job is part-time.
More Information
Fragment 1 and 5 were dependent clauses and needed an independent clause to complete the thought. Fragment 3 had a run on sentence needing a comma before 'such as'. Fragment 4 was a dependent clause and needed the comma removed to become an independent clause.
Tips
A common mistake is not recognizing dependent clauses or run-on sentences.
Sources
- Proofreading, Revising, & Editing Skills Success - misd.net
- Chapter 3. Putting Ideas into Your Own Words and Paragraphs - opentextbc.ca
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