After you have completed the ten sets in the Cohesion Exercise: Combining and Connecting Sentences, compare your sentences with the originals below. Keep in mind that many effective combinations are possible, and in some cases you may prefer your own sentences to the original versions.
- Retirement should be the reward for a lifetime of work. Instead, it is widely viewed as a sort of punishment for growing old.
(Carll Tucker) - In recent years viruses have been shown to cause cancer not only in chickens but also in mice, cats, and even in some primates. Therefore, it is a reasonable hypothesis that viruses might cause cancer in humans.
- We do not seek solitude. In fact, if we find ourselves alone for once, we flick a switch and invite the whole world in through the television screen.
(Eugene Raskin, "Walls and Barriers") - We were not irresponsible. On the contrary, we were trained to think that each of us should do something that would be of genuine usefulness to the world.
(Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream) - Little girls, of course, don't take toy guns out of their hip pockets and say "Pow, pow" to all their neighbors and friends like average well-adjusted little boys. However, if we gave little girls the six-shooters, we would soon have double the pretend body count.
(Anne Roiphe, "Confessions of a Female Chauvinist Sow") - We drove the wagon close to a corner post, twisted the end of the wire around it one foot above the ground, and stapled it fast. Next, we drove along the line of posts for about 200 yards, unreeling the wire on the ground behind us.
(John Fischer, "Barbed Wire") - We know very little about pain and what we don't know makes it hurt all the more. Indeed, no form of illiteracy in the United States is so widespread or costly as ignorance about pain.
(Norman Cousins, "Pain Is Not the Ultimate Enemy") - Many of our street girls can be as vicious and money mad as any corporation president. Moreover, they can be less emotional than men in conducting acts of personal violence.
(Gail Sheehy, "$70,000 a Year, Tax Free") - The historical sciences have made us very conscious of our past, and of the world as a machine generating successive events out of foregoing ones. For this reason, some scholars tend to look totally backward in their interpretation of the human future.
(Loren Eiseley, The Unexpected Universe) - Rewriting is something that most writers find they have to do to discover what they have to say and how to say it. There are, however, a few writers who do little formal rewriting because they have the capacity and experience to create and review a large number of invisible drafts in their minds before they approach the page.
(Donald M. Murray, "The Maker's Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscipts")
