To see how well you have learned the elements of sentence construction, complete the POST TEST below.  There is no checklist of answers for the POST TEST.  Instead, you are to have your response checked by the Writing Support Program office.

If the results of your POST TEST indicate that you need more work in some area of this chapter, the Writing Support Program office will direct you to additional material.  If you do well on the POST TEST, the Writing Support Program office will tell you that you have satisfactorily completed the unit.

POST TEST DIRECTIONS: The paragraphs below contain both correct sentences and fragments disguised as sentences.  Repair all fragments in the paragraphs.  To make your corrections, you may add words, delete words, or join fragments to nearby sentences.  Your goal is two-fold: to correct the fragments and to have your correction make sense in the passage.

Print out a copy of the post test below.  First, click on the link below to the printable post-test. and make a copy.  Complete the post test, making your corrections right in the text.  Then bring your completed post test to the Writing Support Program office for evaluation and review so that you can take the final test in the office.

 Link to Printable Post Test

Post Test Passage

Most Americans take the humble hamburger for granted.  In actuality, it has a long and interesting history.  The burger originated in Russia during the Middle Ages.  When a group of Mongolian Tartars shredded some raw meat scraps and ate them.  Later they gave this new delicacy to some German sailors.  Who had sailed into Baltic ports.  After leaving these ports with the recipe.  The sailors introduced the raw meat mixture to the people of Hamburg, Germany.  Because these people did not like raw meat.  They broiled the shredded meat patty.

In 1900, Louis Lassen served the immigrants’ recipe to his lunchwagon customers.  Inserting the meat patty inside two pieces of bread.  By 1904 a cook was hastily slapping beef patties between two buns.  For the crowds at the St. Louis Fair.  Soon people were adding condiments.  Such as ketchup, mustard, and relish.  The hamburger was quickly becoming a familiar American dish.

Many restaurant menus began to offer the hamburger sandwich.  Which gained its real prominence in 1954.  Through the efforts of Maurice and Richard McDonald.  These two men owned a successful restaurant on Route 66 in California.  It was a small restaurant.  Decorated with  two golden arches.  A salesman named Roy Krok saw the potential profit in selling hamburgers along the roadsides of America.  First he offered to set up more stands for the McDonald brothers.  Then, in 1960, he bought their business.  Opening up similar restaurants at important crossroads throughout the United States.

The business enjoyed steady growth.  In 1978, this hamburger franchise was selling eight million patties per day on five continents.  By 2006, over 99 billion hamburgers had been sold.  According to the familiar sign of the golden arches.

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Margaret L. Benner
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English Department
Towson University
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