Ated ideas. Rewrite those with related ideas as compound sentences.

1. The girls had left early. They arrived home too late for dinner.

2. Their bus had been delayed. Their dog was named Nickey.

3. Plans for the party are still indefinite. They finished some sewing they had started on Monday.

4. Kathleen had cut out a new pair of slacks. Marianne was working on the jacket.

5. The material for the jacket was an attractive plaid. They stopped for a cold drink before finishing the job.

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Questions 1–5: Some of the following pairs of sentences can be combined to make compound sentences, but some shouldn’t be. Read them carefully, and decide which pairs contain related ideas. Rewrite those with related ideas as compound sentences.

1. The girls had left early. They arrived home too late for dinner.

2. Their bus had been delayed. Their dog was named Nickey.

3. Plans for the party are still indefinite. They finished some sewing they had started on Monday.

4. Kathleen had cut out a new pair of slacks. Marianne was working on the jacket.

5. The material for the jacket was an attractive plaid. They stopped for a cold drink before finishing the job.

Answer and Explanation:

A compound sentence is formed when we join two independent clauses by using a coordinating conjunction - for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so (remember the acronym FANBOY). An independent clause is able to express a complete idea on its own, without depending on information given in a different clause. However, to join two of them and form a compound sentence, the information in both clauses must be related (they must be connected).

1. The girls had left early. They arrived home too late for dinner.

The girls had left early, but they arrived home too late for dinner.

2. Their bus had been delayed. Their dog was named Nickey. - unrelated

3. Plans for the party are still indefinite. They finished some sewing they had started on Monday. - unrelated

4. Kathleen had cut out a new pair of slacks. Marianne was working on the jacket.

Kathleen had cut out a new pair of slacks, and Marianne was working on the jacket.

5. The material for the jacket was an attractive plaid. They stopped for a cold drink before finishing the job. - unrelated

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

at the beginning of the story, elisa just has the small idea of wanting more attention, but as the story progressed, her desire for more attention grew larger. before she talked to the man with the wagon she was just focused on her chrysanthemums but when she talked to him and got some attention she enjoyed it, so she decided to get all dolled up for henry. but when they were on the way to dinner she was so upset because she saw the flowers on the side of the road and realized the man didn't take interest in her like she thought.