Friday, February 14, 2014

*SENTENCE COMBINATION*

Learning to combine ideas into more complex sentences is an important writing skill. There are many ways to do this. Try to combine the following three sentences.

Sentence 1Many people celebrated Pancake Day by cooking pancakes at home.
Sentence 2Other people went to restaurants offering “all you can eat” pancakes that day.
Sentence 3Pancake Day is more properly known as Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, which is when Christians start the Lenten fast.

4 comments:

AlexandraD said...

Pancake Day is more properly known as Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, which is when Christians start the Lenten fast; naturally, many people celebrate Pancake Day by cooking pancakes at home while other people go to restaurants offering “all you can eat” pancakes that day.

Sarahba50 (155) said...

Pancake Day is more properly known as Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, which is when Christians start the Lenten fast whereby many people have celebrated by cooking pancakes at home, while others have gone to restaurants offering "all you can eat" pancakes that day.

Unknown said...

Pancake Day is more properly known as Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, which is when Christians start the Lenten fast; therefore, many people celebrate Pancake Day by cooking pancakes at home; however, many others may go to restaurants offering "all you can eat" pancakes that day.

Michael said...

Good try, everyone.

As I've mentioned previously, the real challenge is to combine the sentences without having to use a semi-colon.

Here's a possibility:

On Pancake Day, more properly known as Shrove Tuesday, which is the day before Lent, when Christians start the Lenten fast, many people celebrated Pancake Day by cooking pancakes at home while other people went to restaurants offering “all you can eat” pancakes.