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Fixing Sentence Fragments

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Review and Final Check Quiz

1. Three of these are whole sentences. Which one is not?
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- My noisy alarm clock woke me up.
- The red bike with the bent wheel.
- Two apples fell out of the tall tree.
- The empty box sat by the door.
2. Which part is missing from “rang all morning”?
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- the naming part
- the telling part
- neither part is missing
- both parts are missing
3. A fragment can be longer than a complete sentence.
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- True
- False
4. Every fragment can be fixed by adding the part that is missing.
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- True
- False
5. A fragment that never tells who or what needs a ____ part.
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A fragment that never tells who or what needs a part.
6. Words that tell only where or when cannot stand alone as a ____ .
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Words that tell only where or when cannot stand alone as a .
7. Choose the two groups of words that are fragments.
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- Behind the school on Tuesday.
- Six ducks swim across the pond.
- The little brown bird.
- My socks are wet from the rain.
8. Which choice fixes the fragment “fell off the shelf”?
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- A book fell off the shelf.
- Fell off the shelf.
- fell right off the shelf
- fell off the very top shelf in the closet
9. Which choice fixes the fragment “The empty box”?
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- The big empty cardboard box in the hall
- The empty box sat by the door.
- The big empty box
- The empty box.
10. Ava says “Under her pillow.” is a sentence because it starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. Why is she wrong?
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- It has too few words in it to be a sentence.
- It needs a question mark at the end instead of a period.
- It tells only where so both parts are still missing.
- The word under can never begin a sentence in English.
11. Why does a fragment confuse a reader?
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- The reader is left with a question that never gets answered.
- The reader has to read it more than one time to enjoy it.
- The reader cannot tell where the words begin and end.
- The reader does not know how to say the words in it out loud.