Objective: Practice
using coordinators
Directions: Using the
first sentence as the main sentence, combine it with the second sentence
using the most appropriate coordinators
1. Bernado flew to
Seattle. He visited the Space Needle.
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2. He didn't like it. He hated heights.
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3. He felt sick to his stomach. He closed his eyes on the elevator ride
down.
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4. He got to the ground. He sat on a bench.
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5. He wanted to take a boat ride. He wanted to see the Orca whales from
the land.
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6. On a whale-watching cruise, he didn't see any whales. He didn't see
any dolphins or seals.
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7. He met an interesting woman. He asked her out to dinner that evening.
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8. The dinner went well. He asked her on a picnic the next day.
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9. He wanted to spend more time with her. He had a nonrefundable ticket
home for another day.
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10. They both agreed to write. He had an e-mail waiting when he arrived
home.
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Directions: Fill in
these quotes with the appropriate coordinators and punctuation
1. Let every eye negotiate
for itself _________ trust no agent. William Shakespear
2. There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching.
It's a kind of trick of the mind ________ he is born with it. Morley Callaghan
3. Just get it down on paper _______ then we'll see what to do with it.
Maxwell Perkins
4. Failure is very difficult for a writer to bear ______ very few can
manage the shock of early success. Maurice Valency
5. It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing _______
I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley
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