Label this Combining.
With your calendar partner from the ______,
1. Combine each of the following sets of sentences to create a compound sentence.
Use your list of FANBOYS conjunctions. Use a different conjunction for each sentence.
Use the "formula" with correct punctuation.
IC, (coordinating conjuction) IC.
Example Set:
The dark scares us.
We don't know what is waiting in the dark.
-- Alvin Schwarz, Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (2001)
The above sentence could be combined to this:
The dark scares us, for we don't know what is waiting in the dark.
Set #1.
A nervous chuckle rose up in me.
I refused to let it out.
Set #2.
I tried calling her as soon as I got home from school.
Her line was busy.
-- Nancy Osa, Cuba 15 (2003)
Set #3. Next summer might be better.
It might be worse.
--Scholastic Success with Grammar
Set #4.
He shines the light in my face.
I am probably the only thing illuminated for five miles.
Chris Lynch, Vietnam Sharpshooter, p. 171
Don't forget the pattern: IC, (coordinating conjuction) IC.
Thanks to Jeff Anderson in Everyday Editing
