Question

1) The first skateboard was constructed of old roller-skate wheels attached to a piece of wood. (2) Improvements were made to the skateboard in 1959. (3) The year that the first commercially made skateboard appeared. (4) Soon after, skateboarding began to grow in popularity. (5) In 1963, skateboard manufacturers formed the first professional skateboarding team. (6) That same year, the first organized skateboard competition took place, in California.

Which is the most effective way to correct the fragment in sentence 3?

Answer 1

You can combine the third and fourth sentence by adding a comma instead of a period and take out the capital letter.

Answer 2

Actually, a combination of the second and third sentences would be most effective in the correction of the fragment sentence, because sentence 3.) is a dependent clause and sentence 2.) is independent. They would fit perfectly well. You could combine the sentences like this:
“Improvements were made to the skateboard in 1959, and that year, the first commercially made skateboard appeared.”

Sentence 4.) cannot be used because it already has it its own dependent clause (“Soon after...”) and independent clause (“... skateboarding began to grow in popularity.”)

Answer 3

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