Learn English By Combining Ideas

Some excellent practice yesterday! I believe that the sentence combining was most helpful. Let’s take some time to look at some specific tools useful for sentence combining and some of the rules involved.

Some great combining words should be familiar to all – and, but, nor, or, for, yet

These are combining words that should have equal on either side. If you have the name of one person before these words you should have the name of one person on the other side.

John became the President.
Janie became the President.
John and Janie became the President.

If you are joining two complete sentences, then you should have a complete sentence on one side and a complete sentence on the other side.

Janie became President.
John became Vice-President.
Janie became President, and John became Vice-President.

Janie was sworn in as President on January 20, 2010.
John became Vice-President on January 20, 2008.
Janie became President on January 20, 2010, but John became Vice-President on January 20, 2010.

Try combining the following pairs of sentences with the word in parentheses.

1. (and)
The trainer at the animal park fed the snakes.
The zookeeper washed the elephants.

2. (and)
The reporter arrived at the scene of the crime minutes after it happened.
The police rescued the man from a terrible robber.

3. (for)
The teacher was annoyed with the principal.
The principal cancelled the special lunch.

4. (yet)
The scientist is famous.
We don’t know much about the life of the scientist.

5. (for)
The doctor must prescribe the medicine.
The patient must recover.

6. (or)
The weather will get better.
The baseball game will be cancelled.

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