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Review Exercise 16-3 Identifying

and Correcting Multiple Sentence

Fragments

Underline and correct the two fragments in each numbered item that

follows. Write your corrections on the lines provided.

Answers will vary.

1. Because grass grows quickly in the South and weeds abound.

Many residents plant thick, slow-growing grasses. Such as
centipede.

2. After he had gone through registration. Edward stood in line at

the bookstore. He glanced through his textbooks. And
remarked to the student behind him that it was going to be a

long semester.