Wednesday, 15 June 2016

EF2/3 Many Ways to Combine Sentences

Sentence styles- different types of sentences
SIMPLE
COMPOUND
COMPLEX

1. The girl is happy. She won the race.
The girl is happy because she won the race. COMPLEX- adverb cl
The girl won the race, so she is happy. COMPOUND , SOBA
The happy girl won the race. SIMPLE
The girl won the race and is happy. SIMPLE
The girl who won the race is happy. COMPLEX- adjective cl

Sentences are clear. Learn these models.

2. The student is from China and sits next to me. SIMPLE
The Chinese/Canadian/Persian/Filipino/Korean student sits next to me. SIMPLE
The student is from China, and she sits next to me. COMPOUND
The student who is form China sits next to me. COMPLEX- adjective cl
The student who sits next to me is from Japan. COMPLEX- adj cl 
The student is from France who sits next to me. NO GOOD

3. The taxi driver took me to the airport because he was friendly.  XXX
The friendly taxi driver took me to the airport. SIMPLE
The taxi driver took me to the airport, and he was friendly. COMPOUND
The taxi driver who took me to the airport was friendly. COMPLEX- adjective clause
I thought that the taxi driver who took me to the airport was friendly. COMPLEX- noun clause, adjective clause

4. I am running late, so I have to skip breakfast. COMPOUND
I have to skip breakfast because I am running late. COMPLEX
I am running around today. busy
I have been running around all morning. have been busy


Test tomorrow- 10 of those, choose one way for each exercise, use different styles

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