Circle the letter of the incorrect sentence in each pair (a or b). Although the terms may not be
familiar to you yet, also try to identify the type of error that the sentence contains (c, d, or e).
a) The mushrooms and other items at the salad bar looked a bit rotten.
b) The mushrooms and other items at the salad bar looking a bit rotten.
c) run-on sentence d) fragment e) subject-verb agreement error
B is incorrect, and the error is d
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