This exercise is advanced sentence combining; it is designed for students who have completed Lesson 9 in the course.
Sentence 1: We listened apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA.
Sentence 2: We,like many other investors, started to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances.
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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#1.Use a gerund;
Listening apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA, we, like many other investors, started to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances.
#2.Use a relative pronoun;
We, like many other investors who started to feel nervous about the state of their personal finances, listened apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA.
#3.Use an appositive;
Like many other investors, we, listening apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA, started to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances.
Bernie: Very good:-)
Gerund:
Feeling nervous about the state of our personal finances, we -- like many other investors -- listened apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA.
Relative Pronoun:
As we listened apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA, those of us who are investors started to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances.
Appositive:
The bad financial news coming out of the USA caused us, a group of investors, to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances.
1. Gerund
We, like many other investors, started to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances, we listened apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA.
2. Relative pronoun
Starting to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances, like many other investors, we listened apprefensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA.
3. Appositive
We, like many other investors, listening apprehensively to the bad financial news coming out of the USA, started to feel nervous about the state of our personal finances.
Kelly: Excellent.
Seiko: #1--there's not gerund; #2--there's no relative pronoun. #3--good.
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