EXERCISE 2. REWRITE THE SENTENCE IF THE WORDS CONNECTED BY THE CONJUNC...
10. Their team’s struggle this season seemed endless and without hope.
Combining Simple Sentences
Another use for the conjunctions and, but, and or is to combine simple sentences into
compound sentences. Read more about compound sentences on page 151 of Part Three.
A simple sentence has only one subject and one verb.Paul scraped the dishes. I loaded them into the dishwasher.(simple
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A compound sentence consists of two or more simple sen-tences joined by and, but, or or.Paul scraped the dishes, and I loaded them into the dishwasher. (compoundsimple sentence
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Punctuation: A comma [,] usually precedes the conjunction.
Use the conjunction but to combine simple sentences that contrast with each other.
The boat overturned. Nobody was injured. (simple sentences)
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The boat overturned, but nobody was injured.(compound sentence)
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