Suddenly becoming rich and famous, the house was purchased by twenty-two-year-old Elvis in 1957.

The sentence form a paragraph. Proofread them for run-ons, comma splices, semicolon errors, relative pronoun errors, and -ING modifier errors. Identify the type of each error in each sentence, or select “correct” if the sentence is free of errors.

A) correct
B) run-on
C) comma splice
D) semicolon error
E) relative pronoun error
F) -ING modifier error


F) -ING modifier error

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To repair a fragment introduced by a participial phrase with –ing words at or near the beginning of a sentence, explain __________________________________

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