Thirty-Sixth Class Period: Sentence Combining and Common Sentence Errors

Devotional Text: Luke 11:33

Mr. Stone checked that students had completed the second comma practice worksheet and went over the correct answers.

Students should review the handout with the comma rules and their corrected practice sheets for their test next week.

Mr. Stone distributed a handout titled "Options for Combining Clauses" (L12) and discussed it with the class. Students then copied notes on "Common Sentences Errors" (L13).

Students examined an example of poor writing from an answer to a short essay question on the last test. (Some periods worked on rewriting the sentences from the test answer.)

Homework: Combine the following two sets of clauses using the "Options for Combining Clauses Sheet." Combine each set of clauses in the six patterns listed on the sheet. You will have written-out by hand twelve answers when you have completed this assignment.

Set One

In autumn the days grow shorter.

Children have less time to play outside safely.

Set Two

Forecasters have warned the East Coast of "Frankenstorm."

This monstrous combination of a hurricane, a winter storm, and northern frigid air will likely cause historic damage.


Example Set

Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations.


Leave them as two independent clauses.
1. Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game on Wednesday. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations.

Use a coordinating conjunction.
2. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations, for Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game on Wednesday.

Use a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb.
3. Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game on Wednesday; thus, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations.


Use just a semicolon.
4. Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game on Wednesday; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations.

Subordinate one of the clauses.
5. Since Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game on Wednesday, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations.

6. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez tweeted his congratulations because Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants became the fourth player ever to hit three home runs in a World Series game on Wednesday.


Note: This assignment must be handwritten.