Playing beach volleyball, and lying on the beach is:

a. sentence fragment
b. command sentence.
c. complete thought.
d. run-on sentence.

It is sentence fragment

Explanation: It is a sentence fragment because it isn't a completed sentence.

killed them

explanation:

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .