Exploring Writing 2nd Edition by John Langan

Exercise 33

Underline the -ing fragment in each of the following items. Then correct the item by using the method described in parentheses.
EXAMPLE
Stepping hard on the accelerator. Armon tried to beat the truck to the intersection. He lost by a hood.
(Add the fragment to the sentence that comes after it.)
Stepping hard on the accelerator, Armon tried to beat the truck to the intersection.
1. Marble-sized hailstones fell from the sky. Flattening the young plants in the cornfield. A year's work was lost in an hour.
(Add the fragment to the preceding sentence.)
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2. A noisy fire truck suddenly raced down the street. Coming to a stop at my house. My home security system had sent a false alarm.
(Correct the fragment by adding the subject it and changing coming to the proper form of the verb, came. )
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3. My phone doesn't ring. Instead, a light on it blinks. The reason for this being that I am partially deaf.
(Correct the fragment by changing being to the proper form of the verb, is.)
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