College Writing Skills with Readings 8th Edition by John Langan

Exercise 21

Underline the -ing fragment in each of the following items. Then correct the item by using the method described in parentheses.
EXAMPLE
Including the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, the United States, and other countries. The Arctic Circle is the area that surrounds the Earth's North Pole. (Add the fragment to the sentence that comes after it.)
Including the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, the United States, and other
countries, the Arctic Circle is the area that surrounds the Earth's North Pole.
I couldn't find any books on Egyptian history in the library. They had all been checked out. The reason for this being that a research paper had just been assigned to students in an ancient history class.
(Correct the fragment by changing being to the proper form of the verb, was.)
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