Sentence-Combining Workbook

1. THE BASIC SENTENCE. Recognizing Verbs. Exercises: On the Campaign Trail. The Last Campaign Trail. Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Using a Dictionary to Choose Verb Forms. Write/Wrote/Written. Getting a Record. The Onion Cure. Recognizing Subjects. Mind Your Manners. Get a Job. Miracle Food. 2. SENTENCE FOCUS. Exercises: Hard Ball. Exam Stress. Who"s to Blame? 3. JOINING SENTENCES WITH COORDINATORS. Exercises: Old House. Car Shopping. 4. JOINING SENTENCES WITH SUBORDINATORS. Exercises: Familiar Pests. Stay on the Trail. Words that Show Logical Relationships. Review 1: Chocolate High. 5. JOINING SENTENCES TO SHOW COMPARISON AND CONTRAST. Exercises: George and Paul. Summary of Comparison and Contrast Words. Getting in Shape. The Nuer and The Bakhteri. The Netsilik and The Trobriands. Comparing the Past to the Present. The Middleton Boom. 6. JOINING TO SHOW CONCESSION. The Concessive Subordinators. Summary of Contrast and Concession Words. Practice in Contrast and Concession: Two Neighborhoods. Exercises: Sunny Hills and Sea View. My Neighborhood. Practice in Contrast and Concession: Alternative to Gasoline. Alternatives to Gasoline. Take a Stand. 7. SHOWING LOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH TRANSITION WORDS. Using Transition Words Correctly. Exercises: Making Transitions Between Idea Units. Touring Museums. Smooth Traveling. 8. JOINING PARALLEL STRUCTURES. Exercises: The Decision. Joining Three Or More Parallel Ideas. The Cosmic Navy. You Be the Co-Author. Review 2: Nature and Nurture. 9. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH ADJECTIVES. Exercises: Never Too Young. Verb Forms As Adjectives. Double Dutch. Hairdos--The Assyrian and Us. 10. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES. Exercises: The Great Outdoors. Global Warming. Review 3: Nessie. Review 4: Sutro Baths Nostalgia. Review 5: Plastics--On Land and In the Sea. Review 6: Superstitions. 11. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH APPOSITIVES. Punctuation with Appositives. Exercises: The Ski Trip. Not So Typical Music Listeners. Creating Appositives. Alfred and Edward. Madge and Mordred. You be the Author. Review 7: Sense of Time. 12. MODIFYING NOUNS WITH ADJECTIVE CLAUSES. Exercises: Nirvana and the Law. The Lonesome Cowboy. Special Rule: Who/Whom. Belinda and Sedrick. Blind Date. Rio. You be the Author. 13. MODIFYING SENTENCES WITH VERBAL PHRASES. Exercises: Going Out to Eat. The Economics Final. Creating Verbal Phrases. Fitness Folly. 14. FINAL REVIEW EXERCISES. Exercises: The Gateway Arch. License Plates. Dream a Little Dream of Me. Earthquakes.