Sentence 1: The spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten.
Sentence 2: People were literally fighting over the items on sale at the mall.
Sentence 3: Christmas lights are going up and trees are being decorated.
Friday, November 28, 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 1: The spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten.
Sentence 2: People were literally fighting over the items on sale at the mall.
Sentence 3: Christmas lights are going up and trees are being decorated.
Sentence 1: The spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten.
Sentence 2: People were literally fighting over the items on sale at the mall.
Sentence 3: Christmas lights are going up and trees are being decorated.
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The spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten: while lights are going up and trees are being decorated at the mall, people were literally fighting over sale items.
Just as the Christmas lights are going up and trees are being decorated, people at the mall were literally fighting over the items that were on sale; the spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten.
Christmas lights are going up and trees are being decorated, however, people were literally fighting over items on sale at the mall; the spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten.
Although Christmas lights are going up and trees are being decorated, the spirit of Christmas seems to have been forgotten because people were literally fighting over the items on sale at the mall.
Well done, everyone!
But, AliochaENGL177, next time see if you can combine the sentences without relying on a semi-colon. And, Sarah, you made a common mistake with your punctuation.
You need to use a semi-colon or a period before (and then a comma after) conjunctive adverbs (like “therefore” and “however”). For example: “It was good; however, it was not my style.”
Be sure not to confuse this usage with the one in which words like “however” or “nevertheless” are used in the middle of the sentence to mean something like “though”. For example: “In my opinion, however, it was good.” In this case, the word needs to be surrounded by commas in the same way that other non-essential material is.
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