This exercise is advanced sentence combining; it is designed for students who have completed Lesson 9 in the course.
Sentence 1: The opinion polls predict that Senator Obama will easily win the next U.S. election next week.
Sentence 2: It will depend on your point of view, whether like Halloween, the election may be seen as a trick or treat event.
1 . Use a gerund to combine the sentences.
2. Use a relative pronoun to combine the sentences.
3. Use an appositive to combine the sentences.
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I am not sure, but let me try...
1. The opinion polls predict that Senator Obama will easily win the next week’s U.S. election, being seen as, whether like Halloween, a trick or treat event depending on your point of view.
2. The opinion polls predict that Senator Obama will easily win the next week’s U.S. election, which may be seen as, whether like Halloween, a trick or treat event depending on your point of view.
3. It will depend on your point of view, whether like Halloween, the election, which is predicted by the opinion polls that Senator Obama will easily win, may be seen as a trick or treat event.
#1--what is the subject of "being seen"? #2--on the right track, but a little awkward; #3--pretty good.
GERUND
Depending on your point of view, the U.S. election next week may be seen as a trick or treat event (similar to Halloween), even though the opinion polls predict that Senator Obama will easily win.
RELATIVE PRONOUN
The opinion polls predict that Senator Obama will easily win the U.S. election next week; this point of view – which may or may not be true – depends on whether you consider the election to be a trick or treat event (as Halloween is).
APPOSITIVE
The opinion polls, predicting that Senator Obama will easily win the U.S. election next week, are dependent on your point of view and whether like Halloween, you see the election as a trick or treat event.
Kelly: #1--yes, but 'even though' is a bit awkward. #2--grammatically true, but the meaning is a bit off;-) #3--Again, your juxtaposition of these two gives an awkward cause-effect type of relationship, but grammatically you're fine!
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