Writing Academic English 4th Edition

1. Becausesomestudentsworkpart-timewhiletakinga fullloadofclasses.
   PROBLEM Thisisa dependentclause.Itbeginswitha subordinator(because).Itdoesnot
   expressa completethoughtbecausethereisnoindependentclause.
   ToCORRECT (1) Addanindependentclause.

Becausesomestudentsworkpart-timewhiletakinga fullloadofcourses,

theyhaveverylittlefreetime.

twoweekendactivitiesyouenjoy

twofoodsyouwouldnoteat/givetoa baby

oneschoolsubjectthatyouexcelatandone

thatyoustrugglewith

twoadvantagesofbeingbilingual

twoplacesyoumightspenda month's

vacationora honeymoon

twoplacesyouwouldneverspenda month's

vacationora honeymoon

tworeasonstogeta collegedegree

either...or

neither...nor

notonly... butalso

but

or

and

both...and

(2) Deletethesubordinator(because).

Somestudentsworkpart-timewhiletakinga fullloadofclasses.

Sentencefragmentsareincompletesentencesorpartsofsentences.Rememberthat

a completesentencemustcontainatleastonemainorindependentclause.

Studythefollowingexamplesofsentencefragmentsandthesuggestedmethods

forcorrectingthem.

Chaptern I UsingParallelStructuresandFixingSentenceProblems 183

Inthissection,youwillleamto recognizeandcorrectsomecommonerrorsinsentence

structure:sentencefragmentsandchoppy,run-on,and"stringy"sentences.

c. Ona separatesheetofpaper,wIitesevenoIiginalsentencesinparallelfonn,

usingthefollowingconjunctionsonetimeeach.WIitesentencesonthetopics

suggested,orchoosetopicsofyourown.

SentenceFragments

SentenceProblems..