Grammar: Combining Sentences

1. What is the BEST way to combine sentences 1 and 2?

(1) I sat on my front step. (2) I looked across the street.

• I sat and looked on my front step and across the street.

• I sat on my front step, and looked across the street.

• I sat on my front step, and I looked across the street.

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What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

The chocolate icing is creamy. The vanilla icing is too stiff.

• The chocolate icing is creamy or the vanilla icing is too stiff.

• The chocolate icing is creamy, but the vanilla icing is too stiff.

• The chocolate icing is creamy, the vanilla icing is too stiff.

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What is the most effective way to rewrite these sentences?

Bella dropped her ice cream cone. It landed on her new shoes.

• Bella dropped her ice cream cone, and it landed on her new shoes.

• Bella dropped her ice cream cone it landed on her new shoes.

• Bella dropped her ice cream cone, but it landed on her new shoes.

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What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

Tomorrow may be sunny. Tomorrow may be partly cloudy.

• Tomorrow may be sunny, or tomorrow may be partly cloudy.

• Tomorrow may be sunny, or partly cloudy.

• Tomorrow may be sunny, and it may be partly cloudy.

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What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

Ted searched for his jacket. It was nowhere to be found.

• Ted searched for his jacket, or it was nowhere to be found.

• Ted searched for his jacket, and it was nowhere to be found.

• Ted searched for his jacket, but it was nowhere to be found.

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What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

I will have a juicy steak for dinner. I will have a loaded baked potato for dinner.

• I will have a juicy steak, and a loaded potato for dinner.

• I will have a juicy steak, and a loaded potato for dinner.

• I will have a juicy steak for dinner, I will have a loaded potato for dinner.

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Combine the sentences to make a compound sentence. Use a conjunction, such as and, but, or.

It is time for lunch. I am not hungry.

• It is time for lunch, or I am not hungry.

• It is time for lunch, but I am not hungry.

• It is time for lunch, and I am not hungry.

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Combine the sentences to make a compound sentence. Use a conjunction, such as and, but, or.

I could have a cookie for snack. I could have an apple for snack.

• I could have a cookie for snack, but I could have an apple.

• I could have a cookie for snack and I could have an apple.

• I could have a cookie for snack, or I could have an apple.

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I wanted a game for my birthday. My sister gave me a new shirt.

• I wanted a game for my birthday, but my sister gave me a new shirt.

• I wanted a game for my birthday, or my sister gave me a new shirt.

• I wanted a game for my birthday and my sister gave me a new shirt

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What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

Jack swung the bat. He missed the ball.

• Jack swung the bat but he missed the ball

• Jack swung the bat, but he missed the ball.

• Jack swung the bat, or he missed the ball.

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