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: Sita asked if Father’s Day was just another marketing gimmick.
Sentence 2: Cory replied that because his father was the best, he was happy to have an excuse to let him know that.
Sentence 3: Cory also said that it was possible to appreciate fathers without participating in the marketing hype.
7 comments:
Cory told Sita that Father's Day may be a marketing gimmick but he likes to use it as an excuse to let his dad know that he thinks he is the best; but also knows it is possible to appreciate fathers without participating in the marketing hype.
When Sita asked if Father's day was just another marketing gimmick, Cory said because he thinks his father as the best, he was happy to have an excuse to let him know that and also it was possible to appreciate his father without participating in the marketing hype.
MARTHA: Almost--you have a semicolon so you need an independent clause after this;-)
WOOKJIN: Yes, but note the type (as/is).
When Sita asked if Father's Day was just another marketing gimmick,Cory replied that it was possible to appreciate this day without participating in the marketing hype, and that because his father was the best, he was happy to have an excuse to let him know.
Sita was asking to Cory if Father's Day is just another marketing gimmick, so Cory will ask his father about and he will find an excuse to let him know, because he is the best, then Corry reply to Sita and told about the possibility to appreciate fathers without participate in the marketing hype.
SAADAT: Good solution:-)
JOHANNE: You need to rethink this--you have become "lost" in the middle of the sentence so that it now means something very different from the original three sentences;-)
Cory told Sita that Father's Day may be a marketing gimmick but he likes to use it as an excuse to let his dad know that he thinks he is the best; it is possible to appreciate fathers without participating in the marketing hype.
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