Tuesday, February 19, 2008

SENTENCE COMBINATION, Feb. 19th

Learning to combine ideas into more complex sentences is an important skill in writing. There are many ways to do this--many possible bonus points! Try to combine the following three sentences.

Sentence 1: Where have you been?
Sentence 2: That was the question my mother always asked me.
Sentence 3: I never had a good answer for my mother.

Check the archives for previous questions and answers.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I never had a good answer for my mother who always used to ask me, “Where have you been?”
or
“Where have you been?” was my mother’s frequent question to which I never had a good answer.

Anonymous said...

I never had a good answer for my mother who always asked, “Where have you been?”

Anonymous said...

I never had a good answer for my mother who always asked me, "Where have you been?"

Veronica Baig said...

Milijana. Cindy, and Sara: Excellent!

Anonymous said...

Rupinder,
I never had a good answer for my mother who always asked me, "Where have you been?"

Veronica Baig said...

Rupinder: Yes, but you need to structure this differently from previous students;-) There are many possible ways to do this.

Anonymous said...

My mother use to always me "where have you been?" but I never had a good answer.

Veronica Baig said...

Jeff: You have the right idea, but note the problem with "use to"; this should be "used to" as the verb is in the past--because of the pronunciation, however, we don't hear the "d".

Carole said...

I never had a good answer for my mother when she was asking me : “Where have you been?”