Your Turn Correct the following sentence fragments by adding either a complete subject or a complete
predicate
1. The destructive puppy, aptly christened Mischief
2. ignored his friends pleas not to drive drunk
3. Planted pink begonias all over the yard
4. Bought a new laptop on sale at Best Buy
6. The gorgeous two-story house at the end of the cul-de-sac
6. Jackson, who swore he would never fall in love
7. Gave herself up to the police
8. Paid $1150 for a Newfoundland puppy
9. Trevor's ex-girlfriend, the one who introduced him to punk music
10. The obnoxious man behind me in the checkout line
FRAGMENTS CONSISTING OF-ING WORD GROUPS
Generally
, a fragment consisting of an -ing word group is a group of words that
ir or to the sentence

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She took up a scalpel and slit the monkey's abdomen, making a slow and gentle cut, keeping the blade well away from her gloved fingers. the spleen was puffed up and tough, leathery, like a globe of smoked salami. she did not see any bloody lesions inside this monkey. she had expected that the monkey's interior would be a lake of blood, but no, this monkey looked all right, it had not bled into itself. if the animal had died of ebola, this was not a clear case. she opened up the intestine. there was no blood inside it. the gut looked okay. then she examined the stomach. there she found a ring of bleeding spots at the junction between the stomach and the small intestine. this could be a sign of ebola, but it was not a clear sign. it could also be a sign of simian fever, not ebola. therefore, she could not confirm the presence of ebola virus in this animal based on a visual inspection of the internal organs during necropsy.