Sentence-Combining Workbook,9781413019773

Sentence-Combining Workbook

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9781413019773
ISBN10: 1413019773
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-27
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

SENTENCE COMBINING WORKBOOK uses sentence-combining techniques to help you develop confidence in your writing at the sentence level and practice in communicating your ideas in clear sentence structures. Each unit focuses on a specific sentence-level technique, followed by a set of sentence-combining exercises involving a narrative story or factual topic. Through this innovative story-telling approach, you'll practice viewing individual sentences as part of a larger context and develop your sentence expansion skills.

Table of Contents

Unit One The Basic Sentence
1(24)
Recognizing Verbs
1(8)
Exercise One On the Campaign Trail
3(2)
Exercise Two The Last Campaign Trail
5(2)
Exercise Three Take Me Out to the Ball Game
7(2)
Using a Dictionary to Choose the Correct Verb Form
9(8)
Exercise Four Write/Wrote/Written
11(2)
Exercise Five Getting a Record
13(2)
Exercise Six The Onion Cure
15(2)
Recognizing Subjects
17(8)
Exercise Seven Mind Your Manners
19(2)
Exercise Eight Get a Job
21(2)
Exercise Nine Miracle Food
23(2)
Unit Two Sentence Focus
25(8)
Exercise One Hard Ball
27(2)
Exercise Two Exam Stress
29(2)
Exercise Three Who's to Blame?
31(2)
Unit Three Joining Sentences with Coordinators
33(6)
Exercise One Old House
35(2)
Exercise Two Car Shopping
37(2)
Unit Four Joining Sentences with Subordinators
39(12)
Exercise One Familiar Pests
41(2)
Exercise Two Stay on the Trail
43(2)
Joining Words That Show Logical Relationships
45(2)
Review Exercise 1 Chocolate High
47(4)
Unit Five Joining Sentences to Show Comparison and Contrast
51(16)
Exercise One George and Paul
53(2)
Summary of Comparison and Contrast Joining Words
55(8)
Exercise Two Getting in Shape
57(2)
Exercise Three The Nuer and the Bakhteri
59(2)
Exercise Four The Netsilik and the Trobriands
61(2)
Comparing the Present and the Past
63(4)
Exercise Five The Middleton Boom
65(2)
Unit Six Joining Sentences to Show Concession
67(14)
The Concessive Subordinators
67(1)
Summary of Contrast and Concession Words
68(1)
Practice in Contrast and Concession: Two Neighborhoods
69(6)
Exercise One Sunny Hills and Sea View
71(2)
Exercise Two My Neighborhood
73(2)
Practice in Contrast and Concession: Alternatives to Gasoline
75(6)
Exercise Three Alternatives to Gasoline
77(2)
Exercise Four Taking a Stand
79(2)
Unit Seven Showing Logical Relationships with Transition Words
81(10)
Using Transition Words Effectively
81(1)
Using Transition Words Correctly
82(1)
Showing Logical Relationships with Transition Words
83(8)
Exercise One Making Connections
85(2)
Exercise Two Touring Musuems
87(2)
Exercise Three Smooth Traveling
89(2)
Unit Eight Joining Parallel Structures
91(14)
Exercise One The Decision
93(2)
Joining Three or More Parallel Ideas
95(6)
Exercise Two The Cosmic Navy
97(2)
Exercise Three You Be the Co-Author
99(2)
Review Exercise 2 Nature and Nurture
101(4)
Unit Nine Modifying Nouns with Adjectives
105(10)
Exercise One Never Too Young
107(2)
Verb Forms as Adjectives
109(6)
Exercise Two Double Dutch
111(2)
Exercise Three Hairdos---The Assyrians and Us
113(2)
Unit Ten Modifying Nouns with Prepositional Phrases
115(28)
Exercise One The Great Outdoors
117(2)
Exercise Two Global Warming
119(2)
Review Exercises 3 and 4
121(2)
Review Exercise 3 Nessie
123(4)
Review Exercise 4 Sutro Baths Nostalgia
127(4)
Review Exercises 5 and 6
131(2)
Review Exercise 5 Plastics---On Land and in the Sea
133(4)
Review Exercise 6 Superstitions
137(6)
Unit Eleven Modifying Nouns with Appositives
143(16)
Punctuation with Appositives
143(6)
Exercise One The Ski Trip
145(2)
Exercise Two Not So Typical Music Listeners
147(2)
Creating Appositives
149(8)
Exercise Three Alfred and Edward
151(2)
Exercise Four Madge and Mordred
153(2)
Exercise Five You Be the Author
155(2)
Review Exercise 7 Sense of Time
157(2)
Unit Twelve Modifying Nouns with Adjective Clauses
159(16)
Exercise One Nirvana and the Law
161(2)
Exercise Two The Lonesome Cowboy
163(2)
Special Rule: Who/Whom
165(10)
Exercise Three Belinda and Sedrick
167(2)
Exercise Four Blind Date
169(2)
Exercise Five Rio
171(2)
Exercise Six You Be the Author
173(2)
Unit Thirteen Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases
175(8)
Exercise One Going Out to Eat
177(2)
Exercise Two The Economics Final
179(2)
Creating Verbal Phrases
181(2)
Exercise Three Fitness Folly
181(2)
Unit Fourteen Final Review Exercises
183(12)
Final Review Exercise 1 The Gateway Arch
185(2)
Final Review Exercise 2 License Plates
187(4)
Final Review Exercise 3 Dream a Little Dream of Me
191(4)
Final Review Exercise 4 Earthquakes
195

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