Revising with Style

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Revising with Style

• Combining Sentences I

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1. The story Names/Nombres is by Julia Alvarez.
It tells of her experiences after immigrating to
the United States.
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1. Remove the verb is and the pronoun it to make
   a simple sentence.

The story Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez tells
of her experiences after immigrating to the
United States.
OR
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1. Change by Julia Alvarez to the possessive noun
   Julia Alvarezs and place it at the beginning
   of the new sentence. Delete the period and It.

Julia Alvarezs story Names/Nombres tells of
her experiences after immigrating to the United
States.
OR
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1. Change the period to a comma, and add the
   coordinating conjunction and to make a compound
   sentence.

The story Names/Nombres is by Julia Alvarez,
and it tells of her experiences after immigrating
to the United States.
OR
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1. Move story so that it becomes part of an
   appositive for the title, and then delete The,
   It, and the period.

Names/Nombres, a story by Julia Alvarez, tells
of her experiences after immigrating to the
United States.
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1. The story Names/Nombres by Julia Alvarez tells
   of her experiences after immigrating to the
   United States.

1. Julia Alvarezs story Names/Nombres tells of
   her experiences after immigrating to the United
   States.

1. The story Names/Nombres is by Julia Alvarez,
   and it tells of her experiences after immigrating
   to the United States.

1. Names/Nombres, a story by Julia Alvarez, tells
   of her experiences after immigrating to the
   United States.

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All the new sentences are correct and keep the
original meaning, but if this were the TAKS
Writing test, and you had to choose only one,
which would it be?
A
B
C
D