If the word group/sentence is complete, please leave it alone; If a word group/sentence is a fragment, I want you to highlight it in yellow. You will find eight fragments in the paragraph. 1. For children in areas that get snow.
2. There are stages of snow days.
3. The first day is always fun, exciting, and filled with possibilities.
4. It usually consists of sledding.
5. Making snowmen, drinking hot chocolate, and watching movies.
6. The kids know they have been given a gift of a day away from school.
7. If the first day is followed by more, days two through four continue with the initial excitement of day one.
8. But often lead into cabin fever, boredom, and frustration.
9. This is especially true if days two through four are very cold.
10. Although movies are still an option.
11. Parents begin to feel guilty that their kids are nor learning anything; this begins a tug-o-war.
12. And studying suggested.
13. If school is reopened, family sanity can be saved.
14. However, if more snow days occur.
15. Reality sets in and despondency grows in the parents.
16. Parent’s sanity is jeopardized as they try to maintain normalcy.
17. And start bargaining with the school district, offering to do whatever is necessary to reopen the schools.
18. The final stage for parents is despair.
19. As the kids grow more and more restless.
20. Countless families have been known to abandon hope that the snow will ever melt, and life will become normal again.