Sentence Problems - Choppy

Choppy Sentences

3. (a) Government and private agencies have spent billions of dollars advertising the danger of

smoking (b) The number of smokers is still increasing.

- NotEqual

-Main idea?Sentence b

-Relationship: contrast

-Combined sentence: Although Government and private agencies have spent billions of

dollars advertising the dangers of smoking, the number of smokers is still increasing.

4.(a) Some students go to a vocational school to learn a trade. (b) Some students go to college to

earn a degree.

-Equal

-Main idea? both

-Relationship: alternative possibility

- Combined sentence: Some students go to a vocational school to learn a trade, or some students go to college to earn a degree.

5. (a)The grading system at our college should be abolished. (b)The students do not like getting

grades.(c) The instructors do not enjoy giving grades.

-Not Equal

-Main idea ? sentence a

- Relationship :reason

- Combined sentence: The grading system at our college should be abolished because it does not like to instructors and students

6. (a) Education in a free society teaches children how to think.(b)Education in a dictatorship

teaches children what to think

-Equal

- Main idea? both

- Relationship: opposite idea

-Combined sentence: Education in a free society teaches children how to think, but education

in a dictatorship teaches children what to think