Friday, January 3, 2014

*SENTENCE COMBINATION*

Learning to combine ideas into more complex sentences is an important writing skill. There are many ways to do this. Try to combine the following three sentences.

Sentence 1People have survived both Christmas and the New Year celebrations.
Sentence 2Many people probably ate far too much food and are now trying to lose weight.
Sentence 3Good times with friends and families often involve eating too much food.

5 comments:

Kanakpo said...

Many people probably ate far too much food and are now trying to lose weight because good times with friends and families often involve eating too much food; nonetheless, people have survived both Christmas and the New Years celebrations.

Kanako Nishihara #177 said...

Many people probably ate far too much food and are now trying to lose weight because good times with friends and families often involve eating too much food; nonetheless, people have survived both Christmas and the New Years celebrations.

Doris177 said...

Having survived both Christmas and New Year celebrations, many people probably ate far too much food because good times with friends and families often involve eating too much, and people are now trying to lose weight.

Unknown said...

People have survived both Christmas and the New Year celebrations, but good times with friends and families often involve eating too much food; and they are now trying to lose weight.

Michael said...

Good try, everyone.

Kanako, try to use pronouns to avoid repeating your noun phrase.

Amanda, watch your semi-colon use.

Remember, the real challenge is to find the logical connection between the different sentences.


How about this:

People have survived both Christmas and the New Year celebrations, but good times with friends and families often involve eating too much food, so many of them probably ate far too much and are now trying to lose weight.