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. After she found some Pepto-Bismol. Marina drank the entire
bottle of pink liquid, 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 Pepto-Bismol. And took a mint
from David, the handsome paramedic.