Compound Sentences

Do you want to make your writing more interesting?

You can do this by combining 2 or more shorter sentences into one longer, more interesting sentence.
A conjunction is a word you can use to combine the sentences.	Examples of conjunctions are: and, or, but, so

Suppose you wrote these sentences in your story... Melanie forgot her lunch. She called her mother.

You could combine these sentences with a conjunction. Melanie forgot her lunch, so she called her mother.

Another example might look like this... Pam bought 3 pencils. She lost 2 of them.

You could combine these sentences with a conjunction. Pam bought 3 pencils, but she lost 2 of them.

Maybe you wrote... Bobby has a football. He threw it across the yard.

You could combine these sentences with a conjunction. Bobby has a football, and he threw it across the yard.

Remember to always put a comma before the conjunction in every compound sentence.

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You can even combine 3 short sentences to make your writing sound smoother.

For example:

For lunch I ate a sandwich. I ate potato chips. I ate a cookie.
Or You could write...	For lunch I ate a sandwich, potato chips, and a cookie.

Doesn't that sound better?

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