Thursday, September 15, 2016

*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. Do not use a semi-colon.

Sentence 1: The price of gasoline remains high even though the price of oil remains low.
Sentence 2: Some may blame the weakening dollar.
Sentence 3: There always seems to be one excuse or another for the high cost of gasoline..

3 comments:

Daryl Schaeffer said...

There always seems to be one excuse or another, such as the weakening dollar, for the price of gasoline which remains high even though the price of oil remains low.

LaraENG155 said...

As some may blame the weakening dollar, there always seems to be one excuse or another for the high cost of gasoline that remains high even though the price of oil remains low.

There always seem to be one excuse or another, like the weakening dollar in the price of gasoline that remains high even though the price of oil remains low.

Michael said...

Well done, Daryl. But don't forget to insert a comma before the non-restrictive clause.
Lara, there are some problems with your sentence.

Here is a possible solution:

The price of gasoline remains high even though the price of oil remains low, for which some may blame the weakening dollar, but there always seems to be one excuse or another for the high cost of gasoline.