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Multiple Ways of Combining Sentences
Exercise # 5
Write your answers on separate paper.
The biggest selling beer on the market is Budweiser, it is probably in 90% of every household in the United States.
[In addition to the original comma splice, note the other logical problem
in this sentence.]
1. Combine the two sentences using a colon, semicolon, or dash. Briefly
explain why you used the punctuation mark that you chose. [You may, if
you wish, write only those parts of the sentence that would be changed.]
Use a subordinate conjunction to combine the two sentences to establish the indicated logical connection and focus.
2 [Focus on "is probably in 90%"; logical connection = cause/effect]
4 [Focus on "is Budweiser"; logical connection = identity: make
the other clause an adjective]
5 Reduce the subordinate clause in (3) to a gerundive.
6 Reduce the subordinate clause in (4) to a gerundive.
7 Reduce the gerundive in (5) to an appositive.
8. Reduce the gerundive in (6) to an appositive.