Although Marcie and her husband were unsure of whether or not it was a good idea, they decided to get a little spaniel puppy for their children. When the puppy first arrived at the Wilson's home. Even the kids were a little uncertain about how to interact with it. Though after a few hours, the kids and the puppy were tumbling around on the floor wrestling and laughing. Marcie and her husband knew they'd made a good decision.

Which of these is a sentence fragment?
A) When the puppy first arrived at the Wilson's home.
B) Marcie and her husband knew they'd made a good decision.
C) They decided to get a little spaniel puppy for their children.
D) Even the kids were a little uncertain about how to interact with it.

A) When the puppy first arrived at the Wilson's home.

Explanation:

Sentence fragments can be a little tricky. They are basically, as the name suggests, a sentence-like structures that can't stand on their own and they don't convey complete information.

So, this means that sentence fragments are dependent clauses and phrases.

All of the answers are sentences (they have subject, verb, carry a full meaning) except for answer A.

That is a dependent clause because it tells us when something happened but we don't know what happened, thus, this is only a fragment that doesn't give us full information.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

b and d

explanation: