Read the example. If you want to know how Dickens’s last novel would end. What common error in sentence construction is evident in this example?

The example begins with “If,” which introduces a dependent clause: “If you want to know how Dickens’s last novel would end.” It does not state what happens if you want to know, so it cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. This is a sentence fragment, choice D.

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