Download MS 76 paragraph - Everett Public Schools

Weekly Paragraphs and Sentence Combining
Your Amazing Brain
Subject-Verb Agreement, Comma (Nonrestrictive Phrase or Clause), Sentence Fragment, Numbers,
Using the Right Word, Spelling, Comma (Unnecessary), Deadwood/Wordiness, Comma (Other),
Hyphen
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There is no other known organ that are as complex as the human brain.
2 You're brain holds approximately one hundred billion neurons which are the cells of
3 your nervous system. How does your brain function? First, you recieve a sensory
4 signal. Then you're nerves turn it into an electrical impulse that is sent to these
5 neurons. Than that impulse it triggers the release of chemicals that stimulate even
6 more electrical impulses. The resulting connections, that form betwee n neurons,
7 look like tiny threads. Are called dendrites. Learning in school on the job and in
8 life produces dendrites. The brain builds these complex looking connections most
9 easily during childhood but a person who is 95 years old is building dendrites, to.
Sentence Combining
Combine the second sentence that begins in line 3 and the sentence that begins in line 4 using an
introductory clause. (See page 91 in Writers INC for an example.) Write your combined
sentence below.
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