Exercises in Building and Combining Sentences
These exercises offer practice in various ways of developing sentences to help you become a more confident and versatile writer.
What Is Sentence Combining and How Does It Work?
Find out about sentence combining--a friendly (and generally more effective) alternative to traditional grammar instruction. Then begin developing your sentence-combining skills here at About.com Grammar & Composition.
Find out about sentence combining--a friendly (and generally more effective) alternative to traditional grammar instruction. Then begin developing your sentence-combining skills here at About.com Grammar & Composition.
Introduction to Sentence Combining
An introduction to the basic principles and methods of sentence combining.
An introduction to the basic principles and methods of sentence combining.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Adjectives and Adverbs
In this exercise you will apply the basic strategies outlined in Introduction to Sentence Combining.
In this exercise you will apply the basic strategies outlined in Introduction to Sentence Combining.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Prepositional Phrases
In this exercise you will continue to apply the basic strategies outlined in Introduction to Sentence Combining.
In this exercise you will continue to apply the basic strategies outlined in Introduction to Sentence Combining.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Coordinators
In this exercise you will apply the strategies introduced in "Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses."
In this exercise you will apply the strategies introduced in "Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses."
Exercise: Sentence Building with Adjective Clauses
Now we're ready to practice building and combining sentences with adjective clauses.
Now we're ready to practice building and combining sentences with adjective clauses.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Appositives
Additional practice in building and combining sentences with appositives.
Additional practice in building and combining sentences with appositives.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Adverb Clauses
Here we'll practice building and combining sentences with adverb clauses.
Here we'll practice building and combining sentences with adverb clauses.
Exercise: Sentence Building with Participial Phrases
These sentence combining exercises will give you a chance to apply the principles introduced in "Creating and Arranging Participial Phrases."
These sentence combining exercises will give you a chance to apply the principles introduced in "Creating and Arranging Participial Phrases."
Exercise: Sentence Building with Absolutes
These sentence combining exercises will give you a chance to apply the principles introduced in Building Sentences with Absolute Phrases.
These sentence combining exercises will give you a chance to apply the principles introduced in Building Sentences with Absolute Phrases.
Exercise: Sentence Building With Noun Phrases and Noun Clauses
In this exercise we'll practice building and combining sentences with noun phrases and noun clauses.
In this exercise we'll practice building and combining sentences with noun phrases and noun clauses.