The answer is: [C]: phrase fragment . ____________________________________________________________ The given statement: ___________________________________________________ "<span>Holding her books, her purse, and two packages." ___________________________________________________ is a: phrase fragment . ____________________________________________________________</span>
A phrase or sentence fragment is a group of words in which there is missing a verb (action in the sentence) and/ or a subject (agent that carried out the action), this implies in phrase fragment the subject/ verb is missing which means the reader does not have a complete meaning of the sentence at it is fragmented. In the case of "Holding her books, her purse, and two packages" the action or verb is "holding" the complement is "her books, her purse, and two packages" but the subject is missing, thus, even when we know the person doing the action is a woman we do not exactly know who she is and her name or the pronoun she is not mention. Due to this, as the subject is missing, this is a Phrase Fragment.
Act One -- and the entirety of the play -- is set in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, which was settled by Governor John Winthrop and around seven hundred Puritans in 1639.
