Part 2 Sentence Skills 4. Whene ver I\'m in the basement and the landline rings.

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Part 2 Sentence Skills 4. Whene ver I'm in the basement and the landline rings. I don't run up to answer it. If the message is important. The person will call back. 5. Since she is a new student. Carla feels shy and insecure. She thinks she is the only person. Who doesn't know anyone else. -ing and to Fragments When a word ending in-ing or the word to appears at or near the start a fragment may result. Such fragments often lack a subject and part ofa part of the Underline the word groups in the examples below that c Each is an -ing fragment. -ing ds. EXAMPLE ob boards. Trying to find a job that suited I spent all day looking at online me. The boards e prospects looked bleak

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1. Dependent word fragment: Since she was afraid of muggers.
Corrected sentence: Since she was afraid of muggers, Barbara carried a small can of pepper spray on her key ring. A rape whistle on a chain was hidden under her coat.
2. Dependent word fragment: When I began watching the movie.
Corrected sentence: When I began watching the movie, I remembered that I had seen it before. I already knew who had murdered the millionaire.
3. Dependent word fragment: When a freakish spring snowstorm blanketed the garden.
Corrected sentence: Tulips had only begun to bloom, when a freakish spring snowstorm blanketed the garden. The flowers perished in the unseasonable cold.

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