Exercises in Building and Combining Sentences

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.

An introduction to the basic principles and methods of sentence combining.

In this exercise you will 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.

In this exercise you will apply the strategies introduced in "Coordinating Words, Phrases, and Clauses."

Now we're ready to practice building and combining sentences with adjective clauses.

An appositive is a word or group of words that concisely identifies or renames another word in a sentence. The exercises on this page offer practice in building and revising sentences with appositives.

Additional practice in building and combining sentences with appositives.

Here we'll practice building and combining sentences with adverb clauses.

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 Building Sentences with Absolute Phrases.

In this exercise we'll practice building and combining sentences with noun phrases and noun clauses.