This is an exercise in advanced sentence combining.
Sentence 1: My next-door neighbour was taken ill last week.
Sentence 2: She was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Sentence 2: She was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Sentence 3: She had had a heart attack.
Grammar:
1. Use a gerund to combine the sentences.
2. Use an infinitive to combine the sentences.
2. Use a relative pronoun to combine the sentences.
2. Use a relative pronoun to combine the sentences.
3 comments:
1. My next door neighbour was rushed to the hospital by ambulance last week from a heart attack.
2. Last week, my next-door neighbour had a heart attack, she was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Michael, I really have trouble with this one.
Hi krisla. These are tough!
1. The first answer calls for a gerund, so look for a verb that you can do this with:
Having had a heart attack last week, my next-door neighbour was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
2. This was my mistake. I meant to ask for an appositive, not an infinitive. I don't think it's possible to join these with an infinitive. To join them with an appositive, we need to find a useful noun:
Due to her illness, a heart attack, my next-door neighbour was rushed to hospital by ambulance last week.
3. Using a relative pronoun to combine the sentences is perhaps the easiest:
My next-door neighbour, who had had a heart attack, was rushed to hospital by ambulance last week.
Last week my next-door neighbor, who had a heart attack, was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
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