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change and relaxation. It makes everyone happy.
Rewrite Text B. Change the verb tenses for variety. Change the subject, if possible. Expand each subject and
predicate by the use of as many modifiers as possible without distorting natural word order. Do not combine
sentences.
III. COMPOUND SENTENCES*
Exercises:
A.
Underline the coordinate conjunctions* in the following paragraph. Identify the sentences or the sentence
parts that are joined by the conjunctions.
* See Unit 2 of Appendix [Section V of Part II] for a full presentation of compound sentences.
John is sixteen years old, and he is a junior in high school. He is interested in physics and in baseball. He is a
good student, but he finds time to go to the teen club on Friday nights and to keep up with the latest popular
songs. He has never seen many of the things his parents grew up with. He has no idea how butter is made nor
what veal is. Vegetables and fruits are brought home from the supermarket in bags and packages; he wouldn't
know the difference between a potato plant and a plum tree. His parents are always a little shocked to realize
these facts. They know he has not lived through a Great Depression or a World War, but they usually expect
him to understand and adopt their attitudes and values. They are sometimes surprised by his failure to do so,
and they have to try very hard to see the world through his eyes.
.
Underline the correlative conjunctions* (either or; neither nor; not only, but also; both, and) in the following
paragraph. Identify the sentences or the sentence parts that are joined by the conjuctions.
* See Unit 4 of Appendix [Section V of Pan II] «The Conjunctions and Connectors of English».
Thirty years ago people knew about neither spaceships nor astronauts. They were fascinated with a machine
called the automobile, and they were nervous about flying in airplanes. Gradually both automobiles and
airplanes became commonplace. The coming of jets caused a small sensation, but soon people were used to
them, too. Today, we are accustomed, not only to satellites being launched from the earth and put into orbit, but
also to having men spend several days in space.
We
now expect man to go to the moon. Parents of the past
wooried about airplanes. Parents of today may either have to accept space travel for their children or make
themselves and their children unhappy.
C.
Underline the sentence connectors* in the following paragraph. Identify the sentences that are joined by
the connectors.
Tonight we saw a light moving quickly across the sky. It looked like a star; however it was moving much
too fast for a star. It left no trail of fire behind it; therefore, it could not be a comet or a meteor. It was too fat
and too high to be an airplane; besides, there was only one speck of light, and it was steady and unblinking. We
thought it might be an orbiting satellite, yet there was no space flight in the news. Maybe the morning papers
would clear up the mystery; meanwhile, the light disappeared from sight in the distance. On the opposite side of
the sky, we discovered a beautiful, brilliantly orange moon, partly hidden by the trees. It looked familiar and
reassuring; the smile on its face, however, was as inscrutable as ever.
D.
Rewrite the following paragraph. Provide the missing words and combine each set into one sentence,
watching the sense of the story to produce a logical paragraph. You will have to change the word order to