Writing in Complete Sentences--Practice
Write C if a sentence is complete and F if it is a fragment.
__ 1. One of the most distinctive features of the modern world is the capacity of human societies to increase their productivity, the proportion of goods produced in relation to the size of the total population.*
__ 2. The obvious but basic reason that without food human societies lose their vitality and starve.
__ 3. To speed up the processes of food production have frequently been described as the 'Agricultural Revolution', although this is only meaningful within a wider context of industrialization, in which the production of food is merely a part, albeit a crucial part.
__ 4. The whole process of industrialization has come to be regarded familiarly as the 'Industrial Revolution'.
__ 5. Even though there are many practical and conceptual problems about this term, particularly if it is applied too narrowly in relation either to time, period or place.
__ 6. The Agricultural Revolution which began in Western Europe in the eighteenth century was, in the first instance, a political or administrative change rather than one in which technological innovation figured prominently.
__ 7. Promoted by the inadequacy of traditional types of landholding and agricultural organization in response to the challenge of an increasing market.
__ 8. Open-field farming and a society based upon forms of serfdom were unable to respond to the increasingly mercantile and expanding social needs of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
__ 9. Elsewhere in Europe.
__10. Serfdom was steadily abolished and replace by more business-oriented forms of agricultural organization.
* The sentences on this page are adapted from The Power of the Machine R.A.Buchanan, Penguin Books 1992.
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