Combining Sentences

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Combining Sentences

• Appositives

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What are We Learning Today?

• 0601.1.7 Identify within context a variety of
  appropriate sentence-combining techniques.
• In other words, we are learning to combine
  sentences by using appositives.

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What are Appositives?

• Nouns or noun phrases that rename or identify a
  noun
• In a sentence, they are set off by commas.

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Appositives

• Rita, a good friend of mine, works as a police
  officer.
• Please talk to Mrs. Powell, the guidance
  counselor.

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Find the Appositives

• The book was written by Sharon Creech, one of my
  favorite authors.
• My dog, an Irish setter, has spots.

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Combine Sentences with Appositives

• Repetitive Sentences
• My teacher is Mrs. Johnson. She showed us her
  pets.
• New and Improved Sentence
• My teacher, Mrs. Johnson, showed us her pets.

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Combine Sentences with Appositives

• Repetitive Sentences
• Eric ran squealing around the barnyard. Eric is
  our pig.
• How can we combine these into ONE sentence using
  an appositive?

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Combine Sentences with Appositives

• Repetitive Sentences
• Eric ran squealing around the barnyard. Eric is
  our pig.

Eric, our pig, ran squealing around the barnyard.
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What are We Learning Today?

• We can combine sentences by using appositives.

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Using AppositivesFACE OFF

• The class will be divided into TWO teams.
• A player from each team will come to the board
  for a FACE OFF!
• I will display two sentences.
• The first player to correctly combine the two
  sentences USING AN APPOSITIVE earns a point for
  his/her team.

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Round 1

• Our sailboat has two sails. Our sailboat is The
  Betsy.

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Round 2

• Our city newspaper is published every day. Our
  city newspaper is The Independent Journal.

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Round 3

• Amanda had the crowd cheering wildly. Amanda is
  an excellent gymnast.

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Round 4

• Johns dog liked only one other person. Johns
  dog liked me.

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Round 5

• The neighbor boys are twins. The neighbor boys
  are excellent baseball players.

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Round 6

• My sister lives in Texas. My sisters name is
  Holly.

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Round 7

• Molly is the best actress. Molly is the star of
  the play.

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Round 8

• My husband is Dennis. My husband plays the
  guitar.

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Round 9

• I enjoy my hobby. My hobby is reading.

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Round 10

• On the largest planets there is no water.
  Jupiter and Saturn are the largest planets.

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Round 11

• There goes the coach. Tom Jones is the coach.

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Round 12

• The car was badly damaged. The car is a silver
  Mercedes.

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What Did We Learn Today?

• We can combine sentences by using _____________.