GRADO DE COLABORACIÓN CON EMPRESAS Y CENTROS TECNOLÓGICOS

ce: military and the police is now becoming widespread at businesses and The mobile robot technology that has historically been used by both the hotels.

Important: an answer choice that contains a properly used non-essential clause is virtually always correct.

The College Board will frequently include correct sentences with short non-essential clauses or phrases in unexpected places because they know that many test-takers are unaccustomed to such constructions. For example:

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A planet capable of harboring life, astronomers think, may be identified sometime within the next decade.

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ect: St. Petersburg is a charming, if frigid, city to visit during the wintertime. Do not be fooled by the unexpected syntax. Both of these sentences are perfectly fine as is. And yes, people do actually write this way sometimes!

Sentence and Fragment Exercises

Label each of the following phrases as either a sentence or a fragment. Rewrite all fragments as sentences. (Answers p. 158, Official Guide question list p. 136)

1. Shirley Jackson, best known for her shocking short story “The Lottery,” and who was born in San Francisco in 1916.

2. The tenth legion, among the oldest in the imperial Roman army, originally fought on horseback under Caesar’s command.

3. The pyramids of ancient Egypt, intended to be monuments to the Pharaohs’ greatness and were built with the help of great armies of slaves.

4. The Red Belt was one of several colored belts used in some martial arts to denote a practitioner’s skill level and rank, originated in Japan and Korea.

5. The plan to overhaul the country’s higher education system being a model for moving other desperately needed projects forward.

6. Patients who receive anesthesia during surgery are put into a semi-comatose state, not, as many people assume, a deep state of sleep.

7. Recent findings from research on moose, which have suggested that arthritis in human beings may be linked in part to nutritional deficits.

8. A new study reporting that the physical differences among dog breeds are determined by variations in only about seven genetic regions.

9. George Barr McCutcheon, a popular novelist and playwright, and he is best known for the series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional Eastern European country.

10. Forensic biology is the application of biology to law enforcement, has been used to identify illegal products from endangered species and investigate bird collisions with wind turbines.

11. Human computers, who once performed basic numerical analysis for laboratories, and they were behind the calculations for everything from the first accurate prediction of the return of Halley’s Comet to the success of the Manhattan Project.

12. Nicollet Island, an island in the Mississippi River just north of Minneapolis, and which was named after cartographer Joseph Nicollet.

13. Malba Tahan, who was a fictitious Persian scholar and who was the pen name created by Brazilian author Júlio César de Mello e Souza.

14. The Rochester International Jazz Festival taking place in June of each year and typically attracts more than 100,000 fans from towns across upstate New York.

15. Although Rodin purposely omitted crucial elements such as arms from his sculptures, his consistent use of the human figure attesting to his respect for artistic tradition.

16. Brick nog, a commonly used construction technique in which one width of bricks is used to fill the vacancies in a wooden frame.

17. The unusually large size of the komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard, which has been attributed to its ancient ancestor, the immense varanid lizard.

18. Before they became a team, Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, who wrote hit numerous musicals in the 1950’s, having collaborated with other partners: Rogers with Lorenz Hart and Hammerstein with Jerome Kern.

19. Simone Fortini, a postmodern choreographer who was born in Italy but moved to the United States at a young age, rapidly became known for a style of dancing based on improvisation and everyday movements.

20. Pheidon, a king of the Greek city Argos during the seventh century B.C., and he ruled during a time when monarchs were figureheads with little genuine power.

21. Batsford Arboretum, a 55-acre garden that contains Great Britain’s largest collection of Japanese cherry trees and it is open daily to the public for most of the year.

19. COMMAS AND SEMICOLONS

Comma and semicolon usage are two of the most commonly tested concepts in Fixing Sentences. They are tested only in relation to combining full sentences (or independent

clauses) with one another.

There are three principal ways in which two independent clauses can be joined: 1) Comma + Coordinating (FANBOYS) Conjunction

2) Semicolon Only

3) Semicolon + Conjunctive Adverb

A. Comma + Coordinating Conjunction

There are seven coordinating conjunctions, known by the acronym FANBOYS:

For And Nor But Or Yet So

FANBOYS conjunctions are used to join independent clauses to one another. These conjunctions must always be preceded by a comma. Without a comma, a sentence that uses a FANBOYS conjunction to join two independent clauses is technically a run-on sentence, regardless of how short it is.

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ect: buildings. London is a very old city but it also has some extremely modern Corre

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London is a very old city, but it also has some extremely modern buildings.