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Name ____________________________ 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… ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Picasso was also the favored child when it came between him and his sister Conception. Conception was his beloved sister who died from diphtheria. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ One year later in 1778 Phyllis got married. She got married to John Peters. ________________________________________________________________________ 1 ________________________________________________________________________ For fourth grade JFK went to the Dexter School. He attended it with his brother Joseph. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Phyllis Wheatley died on December 5, 1784. She died in a boarding home in Boston. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Mohandas Ghandi was born on October 2, 1869. He was born in Porbander, a small seaside town… ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ One of Mozart’s closest friends was Johann Lorenz Hagenauer. Hagenauer helped Mozart through his adulthood… ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29th, 1917. He was born on Beal Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. ________________________________________________________________________ 2 ________________________________________________________________________ Kennedy had one older brother. His older brother was named Joseph Kennedy Jr. Joseph Kennedy Jr. grew up to join the Navy. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Later on Kennedy was diagnosed with Addison’s disease. Addison’s disease is a fatal illness. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Kennedy was also President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis was on October 14th, 1962. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ (Poe’s parents) died leaving three children. The three children were adopted and taken into separate homes. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ He left this to move to Padua. In Padua he obtained the chair of math in 1952. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3 Galileo’s telescope could see the craters on the moon. Galileo seeing the craters on the moon made science today far more advanced. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ He had a very important uncle named Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar took a liking to (Augustus) Caesar and adopted him as his son. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Keller’s real life began when Anne Sullivan came. Sullivan arrived on March 3, 1887 from Keller’s parents request. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Cleopatra was born in 69 BC. She was born in Alexandra, Egypt. It was the capital at the time. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ …He met a scientist named Ernest Solvay. Ernest Solvay introduced Einstein to the king and queen of Belgium. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 4