To apply for a job at the new store in the mall.
Asking the interviewer how often he would have to work on weekends.
Shaking his new boss's hand, Tony knew he would like working there.
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Sentence fragments, defined as incomplete sentences, can be a kind of common mistake students make when writing English. There are mainly two kinds of sentence fragments mistakes. The first ones are pieces of dependent sentences that are disconnected with the main clause. Usually this kind of sentence fragments mistakes are also punctuation mistakes at the same time. For example, the sentence “I don’t like this lecturer. Because he cannot explain his points clearly.” The second part of the sentence is not a complete sentence. It is merely a phrase or dependent clause. One way to correct this kind of mistakes is to remove or change the punctuation. Then the sentence becomes “I don’t like this lecturer because he cannot explain his points clearly”, which is complete and correct. Of course, there is another way of correction which is related to the second kind of sentence fragments mistakes. In the second case, fragments are usually incomplete main clause, lacking subject or main verb or both. The sentence “Toys of all kinds thrown everywhere” is a good example of this kind of sentence fragments. In this sentence, there is no main verb, therefore it is incomplete. To correct it, simply add an “are” before “thrown”. In some examples like the first one we mentioned above, both subject and main verb are missing. Therefore, we need to add both of them in order to complete the sentence. After correction, the first example should be “I don’t like this lecturer. It is because he cannot explain his points clearly.” There are now two independent sentences.
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Of the three sentences in each group, select the one that is NOT a sentence fragment.
A.
Mrs. Blanco gone to visit her mother at the hospital.
B.
Finding a parking space there is usually easy during the week.
C.
Driving in the city during the evening rush hour.