Which of the following is a sentence fragment? 1 Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008 and was inaugurated in 2009. 2 Inaugurated in 2009, Barack Obama had won the presidential election in 2008. 3 Barack Obama, who won the presidential election in 2008 and was inaugurated in 2009. 4 In 2008, Barack Obama was elected, and he was inaugurated in 2009.

The correct answer is option 2 Inaugurated in 2009, Barack Obama had won the presidential election in 2008.

Explanation:

Let's explain a little better what a fragment in a sentence is.

Fragments are indicators that something is missing in the sentence. Usually these sections have been extracted from the main clause. That would be the case of sentence number 2, which could be complete if we wrote it in the following way:

Barack Obama won the presidential election in 2008 and was inaugurated in 2009.

Given this information we can say that the correct answer is option 2.

read this passage from the crisis. what rationale is paine using for going to war with great britain? my own line of reasoning is to myself as straight and clear as a ray of light. not all the treasures of the world, so far as i believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for i think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am i to suffer it? what signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them? if we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned why we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.

it is waged war against an army of countrymen

it would lead to independence from britain

it would be an offensive war

it would be a defensive war

now, of course, the quality and the seasonability of these winter dreams varied, but the stuff of them remained.   they persuaded dexter several years later to pass up a business course at the state university—his father, prospering now, would have paid his way—for the precarious advantage of attending an older and more famous university in the east, where he was bothered by his scanty funds. but do not get the impression, because his winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. he wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people—he wanted the glittering things themselves. often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it—and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges.

there you go thats what we are missing