PRACTICE 2 A: Compound Sentences

PRACTICE 2 A: Compound Sentences

Decide which of the following are compound sentences and which are simple sentences. Click CS or SS in the space at the left, and add commas to the compound sentences. Some states allow you to get married at age fourteen but most states require you to be sixteen. Couples may get married in a church or in a government office. A religious official or a government official may perform the marriage ceremony. The bride's family pays for the wedding but the groom's family pays for the rehearsal dinner. The groom enters the church, and waits for his bride at the front. The friends of the groom write "Just Married" on the young couple's car and the old shoes and tin cans to the rear bumper. The bride usually wears a white dress and carries a bouquet of flowers in her hands. The bachelor party lasted until 3:00 a.m, so the groom was late to his own wedding.

PRACTICE 2 B: Compound Sentences

Combine each of the following pairs of sentences to make a compound sentence. Use all three ways you have just learned, and punctuate carefully. a). use a conjunction b). use a semicolon c). use sentence connector. Robots can do boring, repetitive work. They can do unsafe jobs. Robots can make minor decisions. They cannot really think. Robots don't get tired, sick, or hungry.They can work twenty-four hours a day. Human factory workers must learn new skills. They will be out of work because of robots. Answer: 1. a. b. c. 2. a. b. c. 3. a. b. c. 4. a. b. (not possible) c.