Friday, September 4, 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: An apartment in Hyde Park has recently been put up for sale.
Sentence 2: The asking price is more than 150 million (Canadian) dollars.
Sentence 3: It is thought to be the most expensive flat ever to go on the open market.

3 comments:

jocelynp said...

An apartment in Hyde Park has recently been put up for sale, and it is thought to be the most expensive flat ever to go on the open market; in fact, the asking price is more than 150 million (Canadian) dollars.

Rebecca J said...

An apartment in Hyde Park has recently been put up for sale and the asking price is more than 150 million (Canadian) dollars, therefore it is thought to be the most expensive flat ever to go on the open market.

Michael said...

Good effort, Jocelyn and Rebecca!

But I think we can come up with a simpler and more natural sounding sentence:

An apartment in Hyde Park, thought to be the most expensive flat ever to go on the open market, has recently been put up for sale for more than 150 million (Canadian) dollars.