Sentence+Combining

Simple Sentence Combining Worksheet

 * Combine the following sentences with a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so). **
 * 1) She went to work. She did not want to go. **
 * She went to work, but she did not want to go. **
 * 2) The scientists trained him well. They helped him find a job when his training was through. **
 * The scientists trained him well, so they helped him find a job when his training was through. **
 * 3) Polar bears are fierce, territorial animals. Grizzly bears are the same. **
 * Polar bears are fierce, and territorial animals, and Grizzly bears are the same. **
 * 4) Mark told me not to come with him. He looked longingly at me as I left. **
 * Mark told me not to come with him, yet he looked longingly at me as I left . **
 * 5) I will not give in to you. I will not let you push me around. **
 * I will not give in to you, nor will not let you push me around. **
 * 6) He loves to drive during the day. They will let him drive before 9pm. **
 * He loves to drive during the day, so they will let him drive before 9pm. **
 * 7) My cat was hungry. It had not eaten since breakfast. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My cat was hungry, yet it had not eaten since breakfast. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8) They couldn’t think of anything better to do. They decided to baby-sit for the family. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They couldn’t think of anything better to do, so they decided to baby-sit for the family. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9) A book can be a lot of fun to read. A book can be boring. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A book can be a lot of fun to read, or a book can be boring. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10) That movie looks great! I would love to come see it with you. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">That movie looks great, and I would love to come see it with you. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 31px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentence Combining Using Subordinating Conjunctions

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Combine the following sentences with a subordinating conjunction (after all, although, because, before, however, therefore). This may require a semicolon! **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11) They made plans to go. They ended up not being able to make it. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">They made plans to go, however they ended up not being able to make it. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12) Some say that dogs are friendlier than cats. Cats can also be extremely loving. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some say that dogs are friendlier than cats, although cats can also be extremely loving. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13) What we’ve accomplished is a milestone. Let’s raise our glasses for a toast. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What we’ve accomplished is a milestone, therefore let’s raise our glasses for a toast. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14) Dr. Johnson ate a big meal. He went to work afterward. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dr. Johnson ate a big meal, however he went to work afterward. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">15) I simply cannot get out of bed. I am too tired. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I simply cannot get out of bed, because I am too tired. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">16) Don’t give me a hard time. We’ve been close friends for so long. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t give me a hard time, after all we’ve been close friends for so long. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">17) We don’t believe the way you do. Our culture is very different from yours. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We don’t believe the way yo do, therefore our culture is very different from yours. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">18) I can’t believe that you would do something so crazy. If I were you I might do the same. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I can’t believe that you would do something so crazy, however if I were you I mite do the same. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">19) The two weren’t always this close. When she died, they became closer. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The two weren’t always this close, before when she died, they became closer. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">20) I refused to talk about it. I was put in jail. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I refused to talk about it, before I was put in jail. **

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 31px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sentence Combining with Subjects and Verbs
**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The following sentences share either the same subject or the same verb. Combine the sentences however you can. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">21) Mr. Brown walked to the store. His pet monkey Ralph walked along with him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Brown walked to the store, and his pet monkey Ralph walked along with him. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">22) The cactus is thirsty. The cactus is not getting enough sunlight. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The cactus is thirsty, because the cactus is not getting enough sunlight. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">23) My mug was in the cupboard. My mug is no longer in the cupboard. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">My mug was in the cupboard, now my mug is no longer in the cupboard. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">24) Drew’s dog jumped into the air. Janine’s dog jumped into the air as well. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Drew’s dog jumped into the air, so Janine’s dog jumped into the air as well. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">25) The book fell to the floor. It opened to a page I had never read before. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The book fell to the floor, and it opened to a page I had never read before. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">26) Your face has scars on it. Your face looks friendly. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Your face has scars on it, but your face looks friendly. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">27) Why did you say that word? It was extremely rude. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why did you say that word, because it was extremely rude. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">28) Everyone is lying to me! They’re trying to keep me from learning what they know. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone is lying to me, so they’re trying to keep me from learning what they know. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">29) Stop dancing like that. Sit back down in your chair. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Stop dancing like that, just sit back down in your chair. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">30) Thomas’ friends seemed so strange. They were hanging up every time they called. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Thomas’ friends seemed so strange, because they were hanging up every time they called. **
 * 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 caught two bass, and did not use a landing net, so we pulled them over the side of the boat and, we stunned them with a blow on the back of the head in a businesslike manner, then we hauled them in briskly as though they were mackerel. **


 * -- 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. **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">The doctor’s eye roved across the landscape quickly, then his eye detected a black figure, the figure passed through the gate, which led to the field which led down toward the pond. **


 * --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, and she appeared on her neighbor’s doorstep at the first hint of trouble, so she was armed with a treasure-trove of cliches, and a jar of fig preserves, and a repertory of sad looks. **


 * 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. **


 * There were two young men in class, and the classroom was crowded, also there was a instructor that detailed the horrors of the Black Death with enthusiasm, but the two men could barely hear the voice of the instructor, so they dozed because they had succumbed to fatigue and boredom and the stuffiness of the classroom. **


 * E. l. There is a spider.x **
 * 2. The spider is bulbous at the abdomen.x **
 * 3. The spider is drab in color.x **
 * 4. The spider is in the bathroom.x **
 * 5. The spider has a web.x **
 * 6. The web is six inches in diameter.x **
 * 7. The web is in the corner.x **
 * 8. The corner is behind the toilet.x **
 * 9. The web is torn.x **
 * 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 at the abdomen spider, and the spider is drab in colour, and it has a torn web in the corner of the bathroom behind the toilet, and the web was six inches in diameter, there is a earwig trapped in the web, and there are the spiders kills on the floor beneath the web, although most of the corpses are slow bugs three are spiders, two are moths, and the moths are wingless. **