Directions: Read the Following Excerpt Adapted from Shirley Biagi's Textbook

question 7

Multiple Choice

Directions: Read the following excerpt adapted from Shirley Biagi's textbook, Media/Impact: An introduction to Mass Media (p. 50) . Apply the knowledge from Chapter 16 to select the best answers.
¹ Technological developments in the 20^th century changed the role of newspapers in the way news is delivered.²From 1690 until the introduction of radio in 1920.³Newspapers were the only mass news medium available most attempted to deliver news and information as soon as it happened.⁴Today's large urban newspapers, such as the Los Angeles Times , rely on satellite-fed information, these papers often ran to 500 pages on Sunday. 
Which sentences is a fragment?

• A) sentence 1
• B) sentence 2
• C) sentence 3
• D) sentence 4

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Retrospective Study

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Prospective Study

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