COMBINING SENTENCES Sometimes we combine 2 sentences with

COMBINING SENTENCES

Sometimes we combine 2 sentences with one word

Sometimes we combine 2 sentences by changing the order of the words

Sometimes we combine 3 sentences into 1 by reordering every word

Exercise A 1. Soap kills more germs than antiseptics do. Soap is more widely used than antiseptics. 2. The boys’ silent glares accused Brian bowed his head, accepting guilt. 3. A bicyclist can explore paths and trails. They wouldn’t accommodate a car. 4. The foundation was a pit. Into the pit had fallen ash, brick, and partially consumed timbers. 5. Lila Schmidt offered to interview the Chinese college students. Her parents had raised her in Peking.

Exercise B 1. In the play Julius Caesar, Brutus agrees to join the conspirators. He believes Caesar has become a danger to Rome. 2. I watched the giraffe. He was eating leaves off a tree. 3. She walked carefully in her new dress. You would think its pocket contained a bomb. 4. Dr. Henderson had sold her practice and joined the staff of the Clifton Laboratory. She could devote all her time to research. 5. Pike are good to eat. They are regarded as pests in some regions. Pike destroy other game fish.

Exercise C 1. Someone should open the meeting room and turn on the lights. The first one to arrive should do it, whoever that is. 2. We could not find a map anywhere in the house. That seemed to puzzle Dad a great deal. 3. You or Kim should be responsible for cleaning the gerbils’ cage regularly. You can settle it between yourselves. 4. How should he reorganize the system of interoffice communication? That was George Blanford’s first concern. 5. Over half the class was absent. Mrs. Luft’s question was why.

Use these skills to combine 3 sentences!

Exercise D 1. Philip II was King of France. He appointed justices. They went traveling throughout the land. They enforced royal laws and collected royal dues. 2. Rip Van Winkle is one of Washington Irving’s best-known characters. Rip Van Winkle wandered from his home. He sought peace and quiet in the Catskill Mountains. 3. Campaign orators helped Benjamin Harrison. He won the presidential election. They pictured him as a hardworking farmer and a war hero.

Exercise D � 4. Picture the children huddled around the open fire in their colonial school. They read from The New England Primer. It was first printed in 1688. � 5. Mr. Mc. Farland is our social studies teacher. He asks us difficult questions. They will make us think logically.