Combing+Sentences+pt+2

You must include all of the information which is given, but you may change the form of any word or the arrangement of the sentences. You should delete redundant words or phrases, and you may add prepositions and conjunctions.
 * Exercise #3 **Make a single sentence from each of the groups of sentences below.

"Example": l. The students were diligent.

2. The students followed their professor's instructions. 3. The students wrote in their journals. 4. The students wrote every day.

"Single sentence": Diligently following their professor's instructions, the students wrote in their journals every day.

"Exercises": A. l. We caught two bass. 2. We hauled them in briskly. 3. We hauled them in as though they were mackerel. 4. We pulled them over the side of the boat. 5. We did not use a landing net. 6. Our manner was businesslike. 7. We stunned them with a blow on the back of the head. We hauled in two bass briskly like mackerel over the side of the boat we stunned them with a blow on the back of the head our manner was buisness like and we didnt use a landing net

-- E.B. White B. l. The doctor's eye roved across the landscape. 2. His eye detected a figure. 3. His eye was quick. 4. The figure was in black. 5. The figure passed through the gate. 6. The gate led to the field. 7. The gate led down toward the pond. the doctors eye roved across the landscape his eye detected a figure his eye was was quik the figure was in black the figure went through the feild to the gate and then dove into the pond

--D.H. Lawrence

C. l. Mrs. Lang saw herself as a counselor. 2. Mrs. Lang saw herself as wise and helpful. 3. She appeared on her neighbor's doorstep. 4. She appeared at the first hint of trouble. 5. She was armed with a treasure-trove of cliches. 6. She was armed with a repertory of sad looks. 7. She was armed with a jar of fig preserves. Mrs. lang saw herself as a counceller and wise and helpful she appered on the neighbours doorstep she apperd she senesd trouble she was armed with treaure trove of clitches,repertoty of sad looks and a jar of figs

D. l. Two men dozed. 2. The two men were young. 3. The two men were in the class. 4. They succumbed to fatigue. 5. They succumbed to boredom. 6. They succumbed to the stuffiness of the classroom. 7. The classroom was crowded. 8. They barely heard the voice of the instructor. 9. The instructor detailed with enthusiasm. 10. The instructor detailed the horrors of the Black Death. There were two young men dozed and succumbed for fatuguie they were in class they were so bored just waiting for the bell to ring the classroom was full of kids they could barley hear the teacher who had very little enthusiam then the teacher quieted them own with a movie called the Horror of the black death !!!

E. l. There is a spider. 2. The spider is bulbous at the abdomen. 3. The spider is drab in color. 4. The spider is in the bathroom. 5. The spider has a web. 6. The web is six inches in diameter. 7. The web is in the corner. 8. The corner is behind the toilet. 9. The web is torn. 10. An earwig is trapped in the web. 11. Corpses are on the floor beneath the web. 12. The corpses are the spider's kill. 13. Most of the corpses are sow bugs. 14. Three of the corpses are spiders. 15. Two of the corpses are moths. 16. The moths' corpses are wingless. The spider was huge six meters in diameter his web was torn behend the corner of the toilet there are dead fly corpes on the floor two moths three spiders and sow bugs an ear wig is trying to escape the web but it was to late

-- Annie Dillard