Combining Sentence

This activity will help you reinforce the relationship between sentences. (Another option when repeating a key word seems redundant)

What to link: 2 independent clauses (see samples on reverse)

How to link (see blue chart in H & L, p, 300): conjunction: and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet

comma

semicolon

conjunctive adverb (see chart below)

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Chart: The first column designates the relationship that the second independent clause has to the first independent clause. (see H & L 298-99)

You will usually need a semicolon before and a comma after the conjunctive adverb!