Item 1
Directions: Read the highlighted item in the passage below. Then decide whether it is a complete sentence or a fragment.
Marina, the beautiful mermaid, wanted some tuna salad.
But had a small problem since she was allergic
to celery. At Sammy’s Sub Shop, Marina hoped to find tuna salad free
of this dangerous vegetable. Flopping across the tiled floor to the counter.
Marina placed her order and then checked her sandwich for celery. Not noticing,
however, the spoiled mayonnaise. At five o'clock that evening, Marina
became violently ill with food poisoning. When a lifeguard at the beach
discovered the problem, he called 911. Even though the mermaid had fishy
breath. A handsome paramedic gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Wailing
like a sick dog, the ambulance sped off to the hospital. Where the doctor
on call refused to treat a sea creature with a scaly tail. A kind nurse,
however, had more sympathy. When this caregiver returned with a liquid antacid.
Marina drank the entire bottle, feeling an immediate improvement. The mermaid
told the rude doctor never to swim in the ocean. For she would order hungry
sharks to bite off the doctor's legs. While sharp-clawed crabs plucked
out his eyes. Tossing her long hair, Marina thanked the nurse for the antacid.
And took a mint from David, the handsome paramedic.