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Sentence-Combining Workbook

by: Altman, Pam

Sentence-Combining Workbook

by: Altman, Pam

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9781413019773
ISBN 10:
1413019773
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/27/2006
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
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SENTENCE COMBINING WORKBOOK uses sentence-combining techniques to help you develop confidence in your writing at the sentence level and practice in communicating your ideas in clear sentence structures. Each unit focuses on a specific sentence-level technique, followed by a set of sentence-combining exercises involving a narrative story or factual topic. Through this innovative story-telling approach, you'll practice viewing individual sentences as part of a larger context and develop your sentence expansion skills.

Unit One The Basic Sentence

(24)

Recognizing Verbs

(8)

Exercise One On the Campaign Trail

(2)

Exercise Two The Last Campaign Trail

(2)

Exercise Three Take Me Out to the Ball Game

(2)

Using a Dictionary to Choose the Correct Verb Form

(8)

Exercise Four Write/Wrote/Written

(2)

Exercise Five Getting a Record

(2)

Exercise Six The Onion Cure

(2)

Recognizing Subjects

(8)

Exercise Seven Mind Your Manners

(2)

Exercise Eight Get a Job

(2)

Exercise Nine Miracle Food

(2)

Unit Two Sentence Focus

(8)

Exercise One Hard Ball

(2)

Exercise Two Exam Stress

(2)

Exercise Three Who's to Blame?

(2)

Unit Three Joining Sentences with Coordinators

(6)

Exercise One Old House

(2)

Exercise Two Car Shopping

(2)

Unit Four Joining Sentences with Subordinators

(12)

Exercise One Familiar Pests

(2)

Exercise Two Stay on the Trail

(2)

Joining Words That Show Logical Relationships

(2)

Review Exercise 1 Chocolate High

(4)

Unit Five Joining Sentences to Show Comparison and Contrast

(16)

Exercise One George and Paul

(2)

Summary of Comparison and Contrast Joining Words

(8)

Exercise Two Getting in Shape

(2)

Exercise Three The Nuer and the Bakhteri

(2)

Exercise Four The Netsilik and the Trobriands

(2)

Comparing the Present and the Past

(4)

Exercise Five The Middleton Boom

(2)

Unit Six Joining Sentences to Show Concession

(14)

The Concessive Subordinators

(1)

Summary of Contrast and Concession Words

(1)

Practice in Contrast and Concession: Two Neighborhoods

(6)

Exercise One Sunny Hills and Sea View

(2)

Exercise Two My Neighborhood

(2)

Practice in Contrast and Concession: Alternatives to Gasoline

(6)

Exercise Three Alternatives to Gasoline

(2)

Exercise Four Taking a Stand

(2)

Unit Seven Showing Logical Relationships with Transition Words

(10)

Using Transition Words Effectively

(1)

Using Transition Words Correctly

(1)

Showing Logical Relationships with Transition Words

(8)

Exercise One Making Connections

(2)

Exercise Two Touring Musuems

(2)

Exercise Three Smooth Traveling

(2)

Unit Eight Joining Parallel Structures

(14)

Exercise One The Decision

(2)

Joining Three or More Parallel Ideas

(6)

Exercise Two The Cosmic Navy

(2)

Exercise Three You Be the Co-Author

(2)

Review Exercise 2 Nature and Nurture

101

(4)

Unit Nine Modifying Nouns with Adjectives

105

(10)

Exercise One Never Too Young

107

(2)

Verb Forms as Adjectives

109

(6)

Exercise Two Double Dutch

111

(2)

Exercise Three Hairdos---The Assyrians and Us

113

(2)

Unit Ten Modifying Nouns with Prepositional Phrases

115

(28)

Exercise One The Great Outdoors

117

(2)

Exercise Two Global Warming

119

(2)

Review Exercises 3 and 4

121

(2)

Review Exercise 3 Nessie

123

(4)

Review Exercise 4 Sutro Baths Nostalgia

127

(4)

Review Exercises 5 and 6

131

(2)

Review Exercise 5 Plastics---On Land and in the Sea

133

(4)

Review Exercise 6 Superstitions

137

(6)

Unit Eleven Modifying Nouns with Appositives

143

(16)

Punctuation with Appositives

143

(6)

Exercise One The Ski Trip

145

(2)

Exercise Two Not So Typical Music Listeners

147

(2)

Creating Appositives

149

(8)

Exercise Three Alfred and Edward

151

(2)

Exercise Four Madge and Mordred

153

(2)

Exercise Five You Be the Author

155

(2)

Review Exercise 7 Sense of Time

157

(2)

Unit Twelve Modifying Nouns with Adjective Clauses

159

(16)

Exercise One Nirvana and the Law

161

(2)

Exercise Two The Lonesome Cowboy

163

(2)

Special Rule: Who/Whom

165

(10)

Exercise Three Belinda and Sedrick

167

(2)

Exercise Four Blind Date

169

(2)

Exercise Five Rio

171

(2)

Exercise Six You Be the Author

173

(2)

Unit Thirteen Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases

175

(8)

Exercise One Going Out to Eat

177

(2)

Exercise Two The Economics Final

179

(2)

Creating Verbal Phrases

181

(2)

Exercise Three Fitness Folly

181

(2)

Unit Fourteen Final Review Exercises

183

(12)

Final Review Exercise 1 The Gateway Arch

185

(2)

Final Review Exercise 2 License Plates

187

(4)

Final Review Exercise 3 Dream a Little Dream of Me

191

(4)

Final Review Exercise 4 Earthquakes

195

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Sentence-Combining Workbook

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