"Texas and Alaska" Compound Sentences

"Texas & Alaska"

Simple and Compound sentences

Read the passage on the next slide

Multiple Choice

What change is needed in sentence 2?

• Change its to it’s

• Delete the comma after days

• Insert but after the comma

• Change temperatures to temperature

Multiple Choice

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 5?

• Change a lot to alot

• Delete the comma after armadillos

• Change so to but

• No change is needed.

Multiple Choice

What is the correct way to write sentence 6?

• The landscapes in Texas are mostly deserts and plains because Alaska features

  mountains and glaciers.

• The landscapes in Texas are, mostly deserts and plains for Alaska features mountains

  and glaciers.

• The landscapes. Texas are mostly deserts and plains, but Alaska features mountains

  and glaciers.

• The landscapes in Texas are mostly deserts and plains, but Alaska features mountains

  and glaciers.

Open Ended

Create a compound sentence contrasting two characters in the novel your class is reading.

Use a comma and FANBOY but or yet to join two simple sentences together.

~OR~ You can join two simple sentences together with just a semi-colon. ;