sentence+combining

=** Exercise #1 **=


 * Revise these paragraphs using compound and complex sentences.**

Paragraph 1: It was a dark and stormy night. The high winds waved the trees against the barn. I looked around and saw that I was not alone. A tall and mean-looking man stood behind me. His long, slender knife shined in the moonlight. He reached back and attempted to stab with it. I jumped out of the way and ran.

Paragraph 2: Tom would rather play baseball then basketball because Tom believes that baseball seems more interesting and more structured than basketball. Tom also believes that baseball is a gentle men's sport, and respects the baseball players for their athletics, and non-agression.

= Exercise #2 = 1. I always order my Favorite cheese fries. 2. Bob was my boyfriend from high school for about eight months until I met Mike. 3. My grandmother wasn't hurt when the sycamore created high winds and caused the tree to fall on the house. 4. My Golden Retriever George; loves to swim and play Frisbee. 5. My parents gave me a car so I can afford to go to college; but I still work part-time at Wal-Mart as a cashier //and, but, or, so, yet, nor// 6. Some students stay on the sidewalks and Some students cut across the grass. 7. Students have to park far from their classrooms so they are often late for class. 8. Trash cans have been placed all over campus yet students still throw garbage on the ground. 9. The administration promised to improve dining hall service but the quality of the food is actually worse this year. 10. These students do not respect the feelings of others yet they don't seem to respect themselves. 11. We must stand up for our rights today or we may find ourselves with no rights at all.
 * Combine each set of short sentences and fragments into one sentence.**
 * Combine these six pairs of sentences using the coordinating conjunctions listed below. Use each conjunction only one time.**

//unless, because, even though, while, although, though// 12. Some students stay on the sidewalks while some students cut across the grass. 13. Students have to park far from their classrooms though they are often late for class. 14. Trash cans have been placed all over campus even though students still throw garbage on the ground. 15. The administration promised to improve dining hall service even though the quality of the food is actually worse this year. 16. These students do not respect the feelings of others though They do seem to respect themselves. 17.We must stand up for our rights today because We may find ourselves with no rights at all.
 * Combine the same sentences above using the subordinating conjunctions listed below. Again, use each conjunction only one time.**

= Exercise #3 = Make a single sentence from each of the groups of sentences below. You must include all of the information which is given, but you may change the form of any word or the arrangement of the sentences. You should delete redundant words or phrases, and you may add prepositions and conjunctions.

"Example": l. The students were diligent. 2. The students followed their professor's instructions. 3. The students wrote in their journals. 4. The students wrote every day.

"Single sentence": Diligently following their professor's instructions, the students wrote in their journals every day.

"Exercises": A. l. We caught two bass. 2. We hauled them in briskly. 3. We hauled them in as though they were mackerel. 4. We pulled them over the side of the boat. 5. We did not use a landing net. 6. Our manner was businesslike. 7. We stunned them with a blow on the back of the head.

We briskly hauled over the two bass like they were mackerel on the side of the boat in a businesslike manner without the landing net, and stunned them with a blow on the back of the head.

-- E.B. White B. l. The doctor's eye roved across the landscape. 2. His eye detected a figure. 3. His eye was quick. 4. The figure was in black. 5. The figure passed through the gate. 6. The gate led to the field. 7. The gate led down toward the pond.

The Doctor's eye roved across the landscape, detecting a black figure passing through the gate to the pond in the field with his quick eye.

--D.H. Lawrence

C. l. Mrs. Lang saw herself as a counselor. 2. Mrs. Lang saw herself as wise and helpful. 3. She appeared on her neighbor's doorstep. 4. She appeared at the first hint of trouble. 5. She was armed with a treasure-trove of cliches. 6. She was armed with a repertory of sad looks. 7. She was armed with a jar of fig preserves.

Mrs. Lang saw herself as a wise and helpful counselor, who appears at her neighbor's doorstep at the first sign of trouble with her treasure-trove of cliches, her repertory of sad looks, and her jar of fig preservatives.

D. l. Two men dozed. 2. The two men were young. 3. The two men were in the class. 4. They succumbed to fatigue. 5. They succumbed to boredom. 6. They succumbed to the stuffiness of the classroom. 7. The classroom was crowded. 8. They barely heard the voice of the instructor. 9. The instructor detailed with enthusiasm. 10. The instructor detailed the horrors of the Black Death.

The two young men dozed in class by fatigue, boredom, and the stuffiness of the crowded class room and the instructor's enthusiastic voice, talking about the horrors of the black death.

E. l. There is a spider. 2. The spider is bulbous at the abdomen. 3. The spider is drab in color. 4. The spider is in the bathroom. 5. The spider has a web. 6. The web is six inches in diameter. 7. The web is in the corner. 8. The corner is behind the toilet. 9. The web is torn. 10. An earwig is trapped in the web. 11. Corpses are on the floor beneath the web. 12. The corpses are the spider's kill. 13. Most of the corpses are sow bugs. 14. Three of the corpses are spiders. 15. Two of the corpses are moths. 16. The moths' corpses are wingless.

There is a bulbous, drab coloured spider has a six inch web in the corner behind the toilet of the bathroom with the wrapped up corpses of mostly sow bugs, three spider corpses, and two were moth corpses with their wings cut off.

-- Annie Dillard

F. l. He ran upstairs. 2. He took blankets from a bed. 3. He put blankets before the fire. 4. The blankets were warm. 5. Then he removed her clothing. 6. Her clothing was saturated. 7. Her clothing was earthy-smelling. 8. He rubbed her leg. 9. He rubbed her with a towel. 10. He wrapped her in the blanket. 11. She was naked.

He ran upstairs and took the blankets from his bed, and put the warm blankets near the fire, then removed her saturated and earthy-smelling clothing and rubbed her legs with a towel, and wrapped her naked body in the blanket.

-- D.H. Lawrence

G l. Then he motioned. 2. He motioned to the driver. 3. The driver was to go on. 4. The car moved slowly. 5. The car moved along. 6. The driver avoided holes. 7. The holes had been made by wart hogs. 8. The driver drove around the mud castles. 9. The mud castles had been built by ants.

Then he mentioned to the driver to go along slowly, and avoid the holes, created by the wart hogs, and drove around the mud castles, created by the ants.

-- Ernest Hemingway

H. l. Corporal Max Klinger is a character on "M.A.S.H."

2. "M.A.S.H." is a television series. 3. "M.A.S.H." is popular. 4. Corporal Klinger is aptly named. 5. He is named for a playwright. 6. The playwright is Maximilian Klinger. 7. Maximilian Klinger was a German. 8. Maximilian Klinger lived in the eighteenth century. 9. Maximilian Klinger wrote a play. 10. His play was entitled "Sturm und Drang." 11. "Sturm und Drang" means "Storm and Stress." 12. "Sturm und Drang" became the name of a movement. 13. The movement was literary. 14. The movement was "avant-garde."

"M.A.S.H." is a popular television series and corporal Klinger is aptly named for a playwright of maximilian klinger; a German play writer who lived in the 18th century who also wrote "Sturm and Drang" (meaning "storm and stress") which became the name of a literary and "avant-garde" movement.