Module 2: WRITING - Compound Sentences

Thanks for joining me today in the workshop on compound sentences.

HOMEWORK ANSWERS:

We underlined MAIN CLAUSEs (=independent clauses) with a strong line in class. MAIN CLAUSEs are IN BOLD below.

We underlined DEPENDENT CLAUSES with a dotted line in class. Here they're in italics.

We circled the word that started dependent clauses in class. Here they're IN CAPITAL LETTERS.

3 Tyke became upset WHEN a caretaker walked behind her.
4 AFTER she picked him up, she threw him into the show area.
5 BECAUSE the show was just about to begin, the audience thought the attack was a part of the performance.
6 WHEN Tyke's trainer tried to rescue the caretaker, she crushed the trainer to death.
7 Tyke then wandered the streets for about thirty minutes WHILE police chased her.
8 BEFORE she could attack anyone else, the police cornered and shot her several times.
9 AS SOON AS the bullets hit her, she fell to the ground.
10 BECAUSE Tyke was suffering from the gunshot wounds, Honolulu zoo workers injected her with a deadly drug at the scene.
11 Animal rights supporters planned to sue the city of Honolulu and the owners of the elephant SINCE Tyke had previously been violent.
12 IN another incident on April 21, 1993, Tyke had reacted violently when someone walked behind her at a circus IN Altona, Pennsylvania.
13 IN that incident, she damaged a wall after she ran through an entryway of the circus arena.

P96 (Extra Practice)
Please note that there are several ways of combining the sentences with regard to punctiation, but there is only one correct match. Please come to Nicole any time in the teacher's room if you would like to check that your punctuation is correct.

Suggested answers:

1 Although many people believe animals don't feel human emotions, that is not true.
2 Because they are social animals, chimpanzees feel emotions like joy, sadness and love.
3 For example, whenever two friendly chimpanzees see each other, they clasp hands and call out greetings.
4 After her baby chimpanzee had died, Sheena became very sad.
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MODULE 1: Describing people

Thanks for joining today's workshop on Reading & Vocabulary. For more practise on describing people, click here.

Module 2: Compound Sentences

For more practice on compound sentences, try this quiz. If you find that one easy, try quiz B and C.