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English 9
Depoy/ Vallor, Period ___
Combining Sentences
*All examples obtained from 2010-2011 honors research papers.
Strive to write longer, more complex sentences rather than short, choppy or repetitive
sentences. You should not begin a new sentence with the last word(s) of the previous
sentence when you could use an appositive instead.
EXAMPLE:
Some musicians say Louis Armstrong invented scat singing. Scat singing is where
the artist makes sounds to create a rhythm without using any words.
Revision: Some musicians say Louis Armstrong invented scat singing, which is
where the artist makes sounds to create a rhythm without using any words.
When Alexander was young, he had a relationship with a woman named Pancaste.
Pancaste was one of the first women…
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After the war in 1921, at the Roosevelt’s vacation home in Campobello, he contracted
polio. Polio is a disease that attacks the nervous system.
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Picasso was also the favored child when it came between him and his sister Conception.
Conception was his beloved sister who died from diphtheria.
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One year later in 1778 Phyllis got married. She got married to John Peters.
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For fourth grade JFK went to the Dexter School. He attended it with his brother Joseph.
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Phyllis Wheatley died on December 5, 1784. She died in a boarding home in Boston.
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Mohandas Ghandi was born on October 2, 1869. He was born in Porbander, a small
seaside town…
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While in Pennsylvania she met Wiliam Still who taught her about the workings of the
Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad was a system to help get slaves to
freedom.
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One of Mozart’s closest friends was Johann Lorenz Hagenauer. Hagenauer helped
Mozart through his adulthood…
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When Carson was ten, she published her first piece of writing to the St. Nicholas. The St.
Nicholas was a magazine for young, aspiring writers.
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Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29th, 1917. He was born on Beal
Street in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Kennedy had one older brother. His older brother was named Joseph Kennedy Jr.
Joseph Kennedy Jr. grew up to join the Navy.
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Later on Kennedy was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. Addison’s disease is a fatal
illness.
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Kennedy was also President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis
was on October 14th, 1962.
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Disney secured them a deal with local theater owner Frank L. Newman to screen their
own cartoons called Laugh-O-Grams. Laugh-O-Grams became very popular in the
Kansas City area.
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(Poe’s parents) died leaving three children. The three children were adopted and taken
into separate homes.
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He left this to move to Padua. In Padua he obtained the chair of math in 1952.
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Galileo’s telescope could see the craters on the moon. Galileo seeing the craters on the
moon made science today far more advanced.
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He had a very important uncle named Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar took a liking to
(Augustus) Caesar and adopted him as his son.
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Keller’s real life began when Anne Sullivan came. Sullivan arrived on March 3, 1887
from Keller’s parents request.
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Cleopatra was born in 69 BC. She was born in Alexandra, Egypt. It was the capital at
the time.
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…He met a scientist named Ernest Solvay. Ernest Solvay introduced Einstein to the king
and queen of Belgium.
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