ENG11 sentence combining

Swimming Pool

1.    The public swimming pool opens during the winter at 6 PM every evening, and Gino goes regularly.

Gino goes regularly to the public swimming pool which opens during the winter at 6 PM every evening.

2.    He offers to take Mario who is his brother and five years old but is afraid of water and never wants to go. UGLY, NO STYLE

He offers to take his five-year-old brother, Mario, but Mario is afraid of water and never wants to go.

He offers to take his five-year-old brother, Mario, who is afraid of water; however, Mario never wants to go.

NOUN MODIFIES A NOUN- NEVER BE PLURAL

“a books room” “a five-years-old boy”

He is five years old.  He is a five-year-old boy.”

“This is a nine-weeks class.”

“a groceries store.” “a grocery story”

“I need to buy some groceries at the grocery store.”

Subway

1.    The train pulled out of the grimy station that was covered with graffiti.

The train pulled out of the grimy, graffiti-covered station.

10.    The middle-aged man who crossed and uncrossed his legs while he was holding a newspaper open to the business section and paying little attention to the others tried to concentrate on the small print of the stock market report.

The middle-aged man who was holding a newspaper that was open to the business section paid little attention to the others; he crossed and uncrossed his legs as he tried to concentrate on the small print of the stock market report.