Thursday, March 5, 2015

*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 1: The man standing next to the theatre is Neill Blomkamp.
Sentence 2: He is the director of the movie.
Sentence 3: His film is opening tonight.

6 comments:

Eugenie C.155 said...

The man standing next to the theater is Neil Bloomkamp; he is the director of the movie that is opening tonight.

SofiaM ENGL189 said...

Neill Blomkamp, the director of the movie that is opening tonight, is standing next to the theatre.

Yosua Cervantes. said...

The man standing next to the theatre is Neill Blomkamp, which film is opening today, the director of the movie.

Belladune said...

Niel Blomkamp, the director of the movie playing tonight, is standing outside the theatre.

or

The man standing next to the theatre is Neil Blomkamp; he is the director of the movie that is opening this evening.

Or

The movie that is opening tonight was directed by Neil Blomkamp; he happens to be standing outside the theatre right now.

MelissaD177 said...

The man standing next to the theatre is Neill Blomkamp; he is the director of the movie and his film is opening tonight.

Michael said...

Good try, everyone.

Yosua, watch your relative pronoun use (you need "whose" rather than "which" in this case).

There are many ways possible answers; but for these exercises, try not to come up with an answer that doesn't require a semi-colon.

The most accurate response, I think, is the following:

Neill Blomkamp,the man standing next to the theatre, is the director of the movie that is opening tonight.

Here is another possibility:

The man standing next to the theatre is Neill Blomkamp, the director of the movie that is opening tonight.