TSI Writing: Fixing Sentence Fragments
Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.
Obsidian is an igneous rock. Cooling quickly enough to form very small or no crystals.
| Product Type | TSI |
| Sentence Structure | Fragments and Parallelism Fragments and Parrallelism |
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| TSI Writing | Sentence Structure |
| Test Prep | TSI |
| Writing Assessment | Sentence Structure |
Transcript
we need to craft from this senses something grammatically correct
That means no fragments were looking atyou cooling quickly enough
to form very smaller no crystals Yeah that's right Adding
that cools gives us the correct structure and preserves the
meaning of the sentence so it should read Obsidian is
an igneous rock that cools quickly enough to form very
small or no crystals Got it A fragment can't stand
on its own is a complete thought So leaving it
alone is out of the question So yeah get rid
of a changing the verb in inserting a comma and
a conjunction like sea is a good start but the
but doesn't make sense in the context of the sentence
and it's just won t either We can't use a
semi colon andy either because those guys only joined together
complete ideas and this a fragment so can't be that's
It obsidian igneous Ingenious ingenious rock should been igneous shmoop 00:01:17.885 --> [endTime] we think about that Maybe not