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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.
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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 • Soap kills more germs than antiseptics do. Soap is more widely used than antiseptics. • The boys’ silent glares accused Brian. Brian bowed his head, accepting guilt. • A bicyclist can explore paths and trails. They wouldn’t accommodate a car. • The foundation was a pit. Into the pit had fallen ash, brick, and partially consumed timbers. • Lila Schmidt offered to interview the Chinese college students. Her parents had raised her in Peking.
Exercise B • In the play Julius Caesar, Brutus agrees to join the conspirators. He believes Caesar has become a danger to Rome. • I watched the giraffe. He was eating leaves off a tree. • She walked carefully in her new dress. You would think its pocket contained a bomb. • Dr. Henderson had sold her practice and joined the staff of the Clifton Laboratory. She could devote all her time to research. • Pike are good to eat. They are regarded as pests in some regions. Pike destroy other game fish.
Exercise C • Someone should open the meeting room and turn on the lights. The first one to arrive should do it, whoever that is. • We could not find a map anywhere in the house. That seemed to puzzle Dad a great deal. • You or Kim should be responsible for cleaning the gerbils’ cage regularly. You can settle it between yourselves. • How should he reorganize the system of interoffice communication? That was George Blanford’s first concern. • Over half the class was absent. Mrs. Luft’s question was why.
Exercise D • Philip II was King of France. He appointed justices. They went traveling throughout the land. They enforced royal laws and collected royal dues. • 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. • 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. McFarland is our social studies teacher. He asks us difficult questions. They will make us think logically.