Practice Coordination and Subordination
Coordinate or subordinate as needed to produce effective, clear sentences:
- The students had difficulty finding reference material on their topic. The reference librarian agreed to help them.
- Five hundred citizens were too many to meet at one time, and so instead the council was divided into ten smaller groups.
- Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway were contemporaries, and Stein was one of the first to recognize Hemingway¹s genius as a writer.
- Sequoyah was an ingenious natural mechanic and was slightly crippled.
- Henry visited Iran last summer, when he was astonished at the modern highways and skyscrapers.
- Mark and Joe had been married a year when they decided to get a divorce.
- I read Catcher in the Rye. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.
- The ambassador visited China. She visited Serbia. She also visited Croatia.
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Grammarland
Clauses
Apostrophes & Possessives
Sentence Fragments
Dangling Modifiers
Coordination & Subordination
Commas, Dashes, & Parentheses
Parallelism
Subject/Verb Agreement
Semicolons
Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
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