Sunday, July 27, 2008

HALF-WAY THERE CHALLENGE! July 27th, 2009

This exercise is advanced sentence combining; it is designed for students who have completed Lesson 9 in the course.

Sentence 1: Amin and Ali decided to go to a movie last Saturday.
Sentence 2: They went thirty minutes early because they wanted seats at the back of the theatre.


Grammar: 1. Use a gerund to combine the sentences.
2. Use a relative pronoun to combine the sentences.
3. Use an infinitive

3 comments:

Unknown said...

#1:Wanting to seat at the back of the theatre,Amin and Ali decided to go to a movie last Saturday thirty minutes early.

#2:Amin and Ali,who wanted to seat at the back of the theatre,decided to go to a movie last Saturday thirty minutes early.

#3:To seat at the back of the theatre,Amin and Ali decided to go to a movie last Saturday thirty early.

Unknown said...

#3:To seat at the back of the theatre,Amin and Ali decided to go to a movie last Saturday thirty minutes early.

Veronica Baig said...

Sariyat: #1--you need to make this passive with your construction (wanting to be seated ...); #2--good; #3--this also needs to be reworded;-)