Answer:
1.D
2. A
3. C
4. A
5. C
6.B
7.B
8.B
9.B
10. A
Explanation:
1) "Her newborn always gets hungry. During the night" is a fragment because due to the fact that it has a punctuation mistake, the sentence is incomplete and senseless.
2)"Under her pillow" it has no verb and no subject. This makes the sentence ungrammatical and senseless, and the reader expects something more from it. The correct use of punctuation as well as the components of a sentence are necessary to create a sentence with meaning and natural to read.
3) It is a fragment because of the punctuation mistake that it contains. The correct form will be "even though going to college will be expensive, Asher has decided to apply". The comma separate independent clauses from the main clause.
4) Option A expresses an action and a reason that explains it. It is not necessary to have any punctuation mark in this sentence.
5) In this case, "planting an herb garden and painting the living room" is a fragment because it begins with a verb while the natural order of the components of a sentence is: subject+ verb+object.
6) Option B has a fragment because "smoking less last month" does not have a subject.
7) Option B is grammatically correct and it makes sense. It is no necessary any punctuation mark because "to join the army" is an adverbial of purpose. Generally, this type of adverbials do not need a comma.
8) The sixth-graders wrote letters to their senator about the proposed cuts to next year’s school budget to make their voices heard.
You join both clauses by removing the period in order to give the second clause a subject.
9) Option B lacks in verb and contains a punctuation mistake.
10) It has no punctuation mistake. Colon is used to make a list.
Dear Mayor.
Through this letter, I humbly emphasize the importance of the elaboration of policies in favor of the right and protection of women in our society. While it is correct to say that many advances have been made, allowing women's lives to improve significantly, we still have a long way to go so that women in our city, and in our country as a whole, have full freedom and full access to all the rights.
In our city, we can witness cases of sexism and domestic violence in many environments. Our women are constantly victims of abuse, limitations, in addition, we can cases in which women do not have access to equal pay, are used as a bargaining chip, are victims of revenge murder, in addition to being subjected to forced marriages (still being children), infanticide and many other situations that can no longer be tolerated.
For social change to happen in our city, it is important that this change happens in the political context that governs our city. We need stricter laws and more female representation in the elaboration of local policies, so that we can, in fact, endure strong and beneficial social, political and economic change for women.
I thank you for your attention.
Anu Sheen
Representative of the Women Forum of Hindu Colony
D.Action is the method of charaterization