Man is the only animal who blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. no fragment Mark Twain

 

S-2a Identifying Fragments

Underline all the SENTENCE FRAGMENTS. If an item doesn’t include any fragments, write no

fragment. Answers to even-numbered items can be found at the back of the book.

EXAMPLES

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1. What is a rebel? A man who says no. — Albert Camus

2. I’m nobody! Who are you? — Emily Dickinson

3. Don’t think! Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-

conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them. — Ray Bradbury

4. Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and reread the same ones. But

all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and

the texture of their leather bindings. — Colette

5. What’s a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it is all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

— Danielle Steel

7. Admiration. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.

— Ambrose Bierce

8. Action is the antidote to fear. — Joan Baez

9. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. — Milton Friedman

10. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience. — Harper Lee

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