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Compound Sentence - Worksheet

This document provides practice exercises for students to build compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions. It explains how to take two independent clauses and join them with conjunctions like "and", "but", "or", etc. to form a single, compound sentence. Students are given examples and steps to determine the relationship between the two clauses and select the appropriate conjunction. They then fill in the blanks with two sentences and the conjunction to complete each compound sentence. The goal is to help students apply their understanding of compound sentences and common academic conjunctions.

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Compound Sentence - Worksheet

This document provides practice exercises for students to build compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions. It explains how to take two independent clauses and join them with conjunctions like "and", "but", "or", etc. to form a single, compound sentence. Students are given examples and steps to determine the relationship between the two clauses and select the appropriate conjunction. They then fill in the blanks with two sentences and the conjunction to complete each compound sentence. The goal is to help students apply their understanding of compound sentences and common academic conjunctions.

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Title: W002 – The Compound Sentence - Practice 3

Course Learning Outcomes : Course Objectives:


 Produce a range of genre -appropriate Apply appropriate common academic vocabulary and
grammatical tenses, linguistic structures and grammatical structures in intermediate-level written
vocabulary in intermediate level written texts texts
Excellence Theme: Student Centered

Directions: Do this exercise independently. Write one sentence on the first line. Write another
sentence on the second line. Then join the two sentences together with an appropriate
coordinating conjunction to build a compound sentence on the third line.

Example: yet

1. People complain that humans are causing global warming.


2. The world is cooler today than it was during the time of the dinosaurs.
3. People complain that humans are causing global warming, yet the world is cooler today
than it was during the time of the dinosaurs!

Step 1: Determine the relationship between the idea of sentence 1 and the idea of sentence 2.

Step 2: Select the best conjunction word to express the relationship.

Step 3: Put the comma punctuation (,) and the conjunction word in the middle to link the two
sentences into one sentence.

*Use the correct changes with nor:


a) remove the second “not”
b) put the do verb or be verb before the second noun

Sentence 1 Conjunction Sentence 2

idea , and additional idea


idea , but opposite idea
idea , or another choice
negative idea , nor* negative idea

Foundation English - Writing Workshop | The Compound Sentence Practice 3 1


idea , yet unexpected idea
cause idea , so result idea
result idea , for cause idea
, for

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, and

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, nor

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, but

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, or

Foundation English - Writing Workshop | The Compound Sentence Practice 3 2


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, yet

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, so

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Foundation English - Writing Workshop | The Compound Sentence Practice 3 3

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