This exercise is advanced sentence combining; it is designed for students who have completed Lesson 9 in the course.
Sentence 1: Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th.
Sentence 2: Obama will be the first African-American to become president.
Sentence 3: Because of current global problems, Obama will have a difficult task ahead of him.
1 . Use a gerund to combine the sentences.
2. Use an appositive to combine the sentences.
3. Use a relative pronoun to combine the sentences.
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1. Being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th, Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president in the country’s history; the new president will have a difficult task ahead of him because of current global problems
2. Barack Obama, the first African-American, will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th.; Obama will have a difficult task ahead of him because of current global problems
3. Barack Obama, who will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th, will become the first African-American president; the new president will have a difficult task ahead of him because of current global problems
Appositive correction:
Barack Obama, the first African-American to become president, will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th; Obama will have a difficult task ahead of him because of current global problems.
Milijana: Good--I'm glad you made that correction;-)
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