Question 1(multiple choice worth 5 points) which of the following is an example of a sentence fragment? he wrote a book. it is short. many people like it. mostly the ending.

The correct answer is Mostly the ending.

A sentence fragment is a group of words that looks like a sentence.  But it is not a complete sentence because there is usually a subject or a verb missing. A fragment can nor stand on its own. An independent clause ( containing a subject and and a verb) is needed for a fragment to become a sentence.

In Mostly the ending there is no verb, so this is not a sentence. It can not stand on its own because it has no meaning separately. All of the other examples are sentences because they have both a subject  (He, Many people, It) and verbs (wrote, is, like).

D) mostly the ending

Explanation:

Got it correct on the test

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

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i think i seen this before