Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Building a Compound Sentence

Discuss

Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and he knew what to do with them.
 -- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998)



Building the Compound Sentence Pattern




Sentence,
IC
FAN BOYS Conjunction
(Coordinating Conjunction)

for
and
nor
but
or
yet
so






Sentence.
IC
Nick had plenty of good ideas,
and
he knew what to do with them.
He tried to stare into her fiery gaze, 
but
he couldn't stop looking at the purple vein bulging in her forehead. 







Thanks to Jeff Anderson in Everyday Editing


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