Chapter 5- Combining Sentences- A Review of Your O

Chapter5:CombiningSentences:AReviewofYourOptionsAsyoulearnedinChapterTwo,sentencevarietyiscrucialtogoodwriting.Usingnothingbutshortsimplesentencesmakeswritingseemchoppy.Youlearnedtocreatesentencevarietywithcompoundsentences.ThecompoundsentenceismadethroughcoordinationusingoneofthethreemethodsofsentencecombiningcoveredinChapterTwo.Thesemethodsincludedusingacommaandacoordinatingconjunctiontojointwoindependentclauses(sentences),usingasemicolon,usingaconjunctiveadverbwhichispunctuatedwithasemicolonandacomma.InChapterFour,youlearnedanothermethodofcombiningsentencesusingsubordination.Subordinationchangesanindependentsentenceintoadependentclauseandjoinsthetwosentencestogethertocreateonecomplexsentence.Asentenceischangedintoadependentclausebyaddingasubordinatingconjunctiontothebeginningofoneofthesentences.Thetwosentencesarejoinedtogetherbyputtingthedependentclauseeitheratthebeginningortheendoftheindependentsentence.ChapterFivereviewsthesefiveoptionsforsentencecombiningandgivesyouthelistofallthetypesofconjunctionsinahandychart.[1]