Dr. finneus peered into the microscope. hoping for great results. to get the cells to fight the virus. that was the most difficult task. the doctor held his breath and focused the eyepiece. he could not believe what he saw. studying this amazing outcome further. dr. finneus realized he had succeeded. becoming famous. that was not important to him. to conquer this pesky bug was the doctor's greatest dream. as he shouted "eureka" and jumped into the air. the doctor nearly knocked his slide to the floor and lost his precious findings.
how many sentence fragments exist in this paragraph?
a. 4
b. 5
c. 6

A. 5

Explanation:

To answer this question we need to know what a sentence fragment means.

Fragments are incomplete sentences. They are missing one of three main elements: a subject, a verb, and a complete thought. In the given paragraph, there are 5 sentence fragments:

They are all missing one complete thought, and we don't get the full information. They seem to be the dependent clauses that miss the main clause. We can't understand what is happening, who is the doer or why they are mentioned at all.

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overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.