Practice #1
Writing in complete sentences

Write C if the sentence is Complete or F if it is a Fragment.

1. ______ Five transcontinental railroads by 1900.

2. ______ They soon had electric lighting, steam heat, dining cars and sleeping cars.

3. ______ On trains with names like the Twentieth Century Limited, the Super Chief, and the Empire
                Builder.

4. ______ The railroads were partially responsible for settling the western states.

5. ______ There were 254,000 miles of railroad track in the U.S. by 1916.

6. ______ A major supporter of the steel industry!

7. ______ Because the railroads were too big and expensive to be owned by one person.

8. ______ They signaled the beginning of the modern corporation.

9. ______ Under the laws of incorporation passed in many states in the 1830s and 1840s.

10._____  They were able to sell stock to the public to raise money for expansion.

11. _____ Because they had expanded much to quickly.

12. _____ Within six months in 1893.

13. _____ 156 railroads went out of business.

14. _____ Competition from automobiles in the 1920s.

15. _____ Competition from trucks also hurt the railroads.

16. _____ Americans fell in love with the automobile.

17. _____ Even though commercial air travel was vastly more expensive.

18. _____ Where it took three days to cross the country by train, a plane could do it in six
hours and later only four.

19. _____ Enormous equipment expenses and spiraling labor costs.

20. _____ Pessimists predicted the end of all passenger service by the 1970s.
 

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