Question

exercise a decide whether each group of words is a sentence or a sentence fragment. on the line provided, write s for sentence or f for fragment.

1. cuernavaca, a city in mexico.
2. the spaniards arrived in 1521.
3. from the writers room at the las mañanitas.
4. with its tropical climate and hot springs, the resort.
5. the famous explorer cortés built a palace there.

exercise b: correction modeling each item below shows one way a sentence fragment can be corrected. study each correction. then on the line provided, rewrite the fragment another way, making it into a sentence.

1. fragment: our driver cesar. correction: our driver cesar apologized.
2. fragment: find our way back. correction: it took all day to find our way back.
3. fragment: waiting at the hotel. correction: our parents were waiting at the hotel.
4. fragment: our cameras with us. correction: we didnt have our cameras with us.

Explanation:

• Exercise A:
• A sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
• In "Cuernavaca, a city in Mexico", there is no predicate (no action or state - of - being verb), so it is a fragment.
• "The Spaniards arrived in 1521" has a subject ("The Spaniards") and a predicate ("arrived in 1521"), so it is a sentence.
• "From the writer’s room at the Las Mañanitas" has no subject - predicate combination (it is a prepositional phrase), so it is a fragment.
• "With its tropical climate and hot springs, the resort" has no predicate (the phrase "with..." is a prepositional phrase modifying "the resort", but there is no verb for the resort), so it is a fragment.
• "The famous explorer Cortés built a palace there" has a subject ("The famous explorer Cortés") and a predicate ("built a palace there"), so it is a sentence.
• Exercise B:
• For "Our driver Cesar", we can add a verb. Another correction could be "Our driver Cesar is reliable".
• For "Find our way back", we can add a subject. Another correction could be "We need to find our way back".
• For "Waiting at the hotel", we can add a subject. Another correction could be "They were waiting at the hotel".
• For "Our cameras with us", we can add a verb. Another correction could be "We left our cameras with us".

Answer:

• Exercise A:

1. F
2. S
3. F
4. F
5. S

• Exercise B:

1. Our driver Cesar is reliable.
2. We need to find our way back.
3. They were waiting at the hotel.
4. We left our cameras with us.