E12 Sentence combining quiz

BASIC SENTENCE FORMS: SIMPLE, COMPOUND COMPLEX, COMPOUND COMPLEX

VARIETY OF STYLES

EVERY TIME, EVERY SENTENCE, CONSISTENCY

AGAIN AND AGAIN- CONFIDENCE AND, MAYBE, STYLE

GOOD SOLID SENTENCES- AUTHENTIC ENGLISH

1. Money isn't everything, but it's a long way ahead of what comes next.
Money isn't everything; however, it's a long way ahead of what comes next.
Although money isn't everything, it's a long way ahead of what comes next.

2. Money is like a queen because it gives rank and beauty.
Money is like a queen since it gives rank and beauty.

Money is like a queen in that it gives rank and beauty.

Money, which gives rank and beauty, is like a queen.

NON-RESTRICTIVE CLAUSE

3. Money is like much: it is not good unless it be/is spread.

: colon -give the example
I have two kids: a boy and a girl.

4. Money can't buy friends, but it gives you a better class of enemy.
Although money can't buy friends, it gives you a better class of enemy.
In spite of money not being able to buy friends, it can give you a better class of enemy.

5. If it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Everybody is of the same religion when it is a question of money.

6. If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor would make a wonderful living.
The poor would make a wonderful living if the rich could hire other people to die for them.

7. Making money is fun, but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.
Although making money is fun, it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.
Making money, which is fun, is pointless if you don't use the power it brings. AWKWARD

8. Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding in which you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.
Bankruptcy is a legal proceeding where you put your money in your pants pocket and give your coat to your creditors.

9. The conspicuously wealthy turn up and urge the character-building value of privation- but only for the poor.

dash - informal, don't overuse it. gives energy to the sentecne

The conspicuously wealthy turn up and urge the character-building value of privation, but only for the poor.

austerity

10. There is only one thing for a man who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money to do- that is to enjoy earning it.
The only thing for a man who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money to do is to enjoy earning it. COMPACT
SEXIST,

eats soft rice

a sugar daddy

a trophy husband/ wife