Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 31

In the spaces at the bottom of this paragraph, write the numbers of the ten word groups that contain fragments or run-ons. Then, in the spaces between the lines, edit by making the necessary corrections. One is done for you as an example.
1 Two groups of researchers have concluded that "getting cold" has little to do with "catching a cold." 2 When the experiment was done for the first time/, 3 exposed more than four hundred people to the cold virus. 4 Then divided those people into three groups. 5 One group, wearing winter coats, sat around in ten degree temperatures. the second group was placed in sixty-degree temperatures. 6 With the third group staying in a room. 7 Where it was eighty degrees. 8 The number of people who actually caught colds was the same. 9 In each group. 10 Other researchers repeated this experiment ten years later. 11 This time they kept some subjects cozy and warm. they submerged others in a tank filled with water. 12 Whose temperature had been lowered to seventy-five degrees. 13 They made others sit around in their underwear in forty-degree temperatures. 14 The results were the same, the subjects got sick at the same rate, Proving that people who get cold do not always get colds.
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