Sentence-Combining
Exercise 2
1. Fearless Frank rushed into the room, dived at the cowardly
crook, missed him, and sailed out of the second story window.
3. His shirt and jacket were soaking wet as he
knelt and put his arms around her. He
held her desperately while looking at her searchingly and cursing
regretfully..
5. Princess Arista fell in love with a flat broke commoner.
7. The third grader boy named Ken Sinclair called and told his
teacher that he could not attend the last day of school because he had
been bitten
by a dog and hospitalized while working for a special program on being
kind to
animals.
9.
I
shall never forget the swelling and sinking
singing of the men at the drum because it was the deepest sound I have
ever
heard in my life: deeper than thunder, deeper than the sound of the
Pacific
Ocean, and deeper than the roar of a deep waterfall.
Those men were calling to the bottomless depths.
11. The protesters, bursting through the barricades,
forced the police back to the door.
13. I can die, and if bringing any light, exposing
any truth, will help destroy the malignant cancer in the body of
America that
is racism, then all credit is due to Allah – only the mistakes have
been mine.
15. The woman, poised on the edge of the opposite embankment,
stood directly in front of them with her hat in her hand and her hair
lit by
the sun.