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how english Works: aCTIVITy
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Learning Target
1.5
Compound Sentences
• Apply understanding of independent clauses and compound sentences to comprehending and writing texts. PII.8.6
connecting ideas
Combine clauses in an increasing variety of ways (e.g., creating compound and complex sentences) to make connections between and join ideas, for example, to express a reason (e.g., He stayed at home on Sunday to study for Monday’s exam.) or to make a concession (e.g., She studied all night even though she wasn’t feeling well.).
compound Sentences
“Made You Laugh” is an expository essay that explores many aspects of a broad and complicated topic—humor. To do this, the author has used long sentences— compound and complex sentences. By combining two or more related clauses into one sentence, the author clarifies the connection between ideas and events.
Simple sentences: Those born blind and deaf also laugh.
Laughter is not dependent on sight and hearing.
compound sentence: Those born blind and deaf also laugh, so laughter is not dependent on sight and hearing.
By linking the two independent clauses with the conjunction so, the author makes the relationship between the two ideas clearer.
Read the short, simple sentences on the left side of the chart. Combine the simple sentences into one compound sentence with two or three independent clauses. Your rewritten sentence should make the relationships between ideas clear. You can check your work against the author’s sentences in “Made You Laugh.”
Short, Simple Sentences
Rewrite as compound Sentences
They are being led in a certain direction. Then that direction abruptly changes. The unpredictability makes them laugh.
They are being led in a certain direction, and then that direction abruptly changes, and the unpredictability makes them laugh.
It [Laughter] has a certain rhythm. Laughter syllables build, then trail off. They come out in a repetitive, not random, sequence.
It has a certain rhythm; laughter syllables build, then trail off, and they come out in a repetitive, not random, sequence.
“The best humor has some sort of layer to it. It makes a statement of some kind or comment.”
“The best humor has some sort of layer to it; it makes a statement of some kind or comment.”
“Do you have a rubber band?” is not in and of itself humorous. It is if it’s said in response to “I like Amelia so much. I wish I could get her attention.”
“Do you have a rubber band?” is not in and of itself humorous, but it is if it’s said in response to “I like Amelia so much. I wish I could get her attention.”
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compound sentence: a sentence formed from two or more independent clauses coordinating conjunction: a word that joins two simple sentences or independent clauses to form a compound sentence; the words but,
or, and so are coordinating conjunctions
independent clause: a group of words that expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a simple sentence
simple sentence: a sentence with one independent clause
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