| . 1. I don't mind telling you, I don't like your manners. | Complete |
| 2. Out there on that barren, wind-swept plateau in the middle of winter, alone with a dead man, and miles from civilization. | Incomplete. There is no verb. |
| 3. To make matters worse, a fire broke out. | Complete |
| 4. And a nasty one, at that. | Incomplete. No verb. |
| 5. I was in a heap of trouble, without a doubt. | Complete |
| 6. At that point it hadn't occurred to me that people might suspect me of foul play. | Complete |
| 7. My wife and I had had our differences, of course. | Complete |
| 8. But no more than anyone else. | Incomplete. No verb, no subject. |
| 9. We'd been working the claim at the gold fields for about six months. | Complete |
| 10. With no luck, of course, and we'd sometimes disagreed about what we should do next. | Incomplete. The first phrase -'with no luck, of course', is incomplete. |
| 11. I was all for giving up. | Complete |
| 12. Tossing it in, selling the claim and trying something new. | Incomplete. No subject, no verb. |
| 13. I kept telling him, "Let's get out while we can." | Complete |
| 14. But not Tom. | Incomplete |
| 15. Lived on the hope that he'd strike it lucky some day. | Incomplete. No subject. |
| 16. Well, now his luck's run out; and mine, too, by the look of things. | Complete |