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Join the following sentences using the method indicated in…
Join the following sentences using the method indicated in brackets. Your combined sentence should have no more than the number of words shown at the end.
1. The woman listened intently to the earnest young man.
She caressed her hair.
(-ing word)
2. The crowd began to file slowly out of the stadium.
They were stunned by the last-minute touchdown.
(-ed word)
3. The city park is where I go to think.
The city park is a shady retreat.
(appositive)
4. I reinforced all the coat buttons with a strong thread.
I was patient.
And I was careful.
(-ly word)
5. I left the house early.
I had to get to the church on time.
(“to” word group)
6. The teenage driver raced his car to the busy intersection.
He did this without slowing down.
The intersection is in the heart of town. (prepositional phrases)
7. A fire started.
It did this at 5:00 a.m.
It did this inside the garage. (prepositional phrases)
8. The boy looked at the girl.
The boy was shy.
The boy was serious.
The girl was grinning.
The girl was curly-haired.
(adjectives in a series)
9. In the dingy bar, Sam shelled peanuts.
He sipped a beer.
He talked up a storm with friends.
(verbs in a series)
10. By 6:00 a.m., I had read the textbook chapter.
I had taken notes on it.
I had studied the notes.
I had drunk eight cups of coffee. (verbs in a series)
COMBINING ADJECTIVES
Combine the following sentences into ONE sentence, using no more than the number of words indicated in the brackets.
The boy stomped on the bug.
The boy was little.
The boy was angry.
The bug was tiny.
The bug was red.
Water dribbled out of the tap.
The water was brown.
The water was foul-tasting.
The tap was rusty.
The tap was metal.
The exterminator approached the wasps’ nests hanging under the eaves.
The nests were large.
The nests were papery.
The eaves were old.
The eaves were wooden.
The man slowly wiped his forehead with a bandana
The man was tall.
The man was thin.
His forehead was sweaty.
The bandanna was dirty.
The bandanna was blue.
The contact lens fell onto the floor.
The contact lens was thin.
The contact lens was slippery.
The floor was dirty.
The floor was tiled.
SENTENCE COMBINING PRACTICE
Combine each group of short sentences into one or two compound and/or complex sentences.
sentences, using a variety of sentence lengths.
1. We have a garbage problem.
The problem is severe.
The problem is in North America.
2. This problem has been growing for a long time.
No one ever wanted to think about it.
3. No one wanted to plan for the day the dumps would fill up.
No one wanted to plan for the day the chemical drums would begin to leak.
4. We ignored the problem.
We covered it up with pleasant sounding words.
5. We call garbage men “sanitation engineers.”
We call garbage trucks “sanitation vehicles.”
We call garbage dumps “landfills.”
6. The euphemisms we use sound clean.
They sound harmless.
They help us forget about the garbage.
The garbage is piling up in our country.
7. A landfill is really a mountain.
The mountain is made of garbage.
The garbage is smelly.
The garbage is decaying.
8. Every year the mountain grows higher.
People do not want garbage dumped near their homes.
We are running out of places to put our garbage.
9. The situation has become a crisis.
The crisis involves buried chemical poisons.
The crisis involves overflowing garbage dumps.
10. Language has helped us avoid this problem.
The time has come to drop the cover-up.
The time has come to face the situation honestly.
