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Exercise Difficulty 3 ~5 min eng.g3.s.ex_50

Combine Sentences With Conjunction

Prompt

Find 2 short adjacent sentences in your draft that could combine. Use a subordinating or coordinating conjunction to combine each pair. Apply the comma rule. Margin-annotate 'COMBINE'.

How it's presented
mode revision on handwriting
Answer criteria
type rubric
criteria
2 combinations madeConjunction fits the meaningComma rule appliedMargin annotation present
Hints
  1. Use BECAUSE for cause, WHEN for time, BUT for contrast.
  2. Don't combine if the short sentence was doing emphasis work.
Misconceptions to watch
  • Combines sentences that shouldn't be combined.
  • Picks a conjunction that doesn't fit.