Friday, April 23, 2010

HALF-WAY THERE CHALLENGE! Apr. 23rd, 2010

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


Sentence 1: My next-door neighbour was taken ill last week.
Sentence 2: She was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
Sentence 3: She had had a heart attack.

#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
 

2 comments:

Julie said...

#1. Having had a heart attack last week, my next-door neighbour was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
#2. My next-door neighbour, who had a heart attack last week, was rushed to hospital by ambulance.
#3. As she was taken ill last week of a heart attack, my next-door neighbour was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.

Veronica Baig said...

JULIE: #1--good; #2--this uses a relative pronoun--not an appositive; #3--there's no relative pronoun here;-)