Combining Sentences Exercises

 Exercise 1
1.) Edgar Allen Poe's mother was young when she died three years after her son's birth.
2.) Fortunately, Poe was taken in by Mrs. John Allan and her husband.
3.) Poe created decorative stories.
4.) Poe had talent in his writing and he inspired the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
5.) Poe had original theories about the writing of fiction.

Exercise 2
1.) Valdez was born in a California city; Delano.
2.) He grew up in a family of migrant and farm workers.
3.) Valdez began to work in the fields when he was six years old.
4.) He champions the cause of underpaid migrant workers and the cause of migrant workers who suffer from over work.
5.) He organized a traveling group called the Farm Worker's Theatre that consists of actors and musicians.

Exercise 3
1.) Auguste Piccard was an inventor, scientist, and explorer who was from Switzerland.
2.) Piccard once spent sixteen hours in a balloon floating across Germany and France.
3.) Piccard attented the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland.
4.) Piccard was a young man when he became a professor at the Swiss Institute.
5.) Piccard invented an airtight gondola.
6.) The gondola took Piccard ten miles into the air attached to a balloon.
7.) Piccard then made numerous balloon trips studying electricity.
8.) Piccard turned his interests to the ocean depths designing a deep-sea diving ship.
9.) Piccard and his son Jacques went two miles below the surface of the Adriatic sea in 1953.
10.) Another deep-sea diving ship went almost ten miles below the surface of the ocean, setting the worlds depth record in 1960.

Exercise 4
1.) Bananas and coconuts are a tropical fruit.
2.) Brazil and India both produce and export bananas.
3.) Some bananas are cooked and eaten as a vegetable is.
4.) By A.D. 600, the Egyptians, Koreans, and Indians were eating coconuts.
5.) Coconuts and bananas are not a major crop in the United States.

Vocabulary #2

Preclude- Verb Prevent from happening. The cage precluded the beast from the wilderness
Rapt- Adjective Completely fascinated by what one is seeing. The child's rapt biking skill ensured his quietness.
Indulgently- adverb Having or indicating to be generous. She indulgently ate all the chocolates given to her on Valentine's day.
Banish- Verb Send away from a country or place to be officially punished. Romeo was banished after he killed Tybalt in a duel.
Fetter- Noun A chain or manacle to restrain a prisoner. I fettered KC to the wall and laughed in a cruel manner: he will be broken.
Virtuoso- Noun A person highly skilled in music or an artistic pursuit. Zack considers himself a (failed) virtuoso and can only play the rubberband tissue box.
Indolently- Adjective Wanting to avoid activity or exertion
Impunity- Noun Exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action. The teacher said, "Because I'm a teacher I can smack you with impunity.
Appropriation- Noun The action of taking something for someone's own use, typically without the owner's permission
Accost- Verb Approach and adress boldly or aggressive

Lady or the Tiger Resolution

We all wonder how that intense evening was resolved. Of course, the princess moitioned to the door to the right, however, it was not told what was behind the door, and the hero believed the princess was simply attempting to kill him, for he too believed he knew what was behind each door, he did not. He calmly proceeded to the right, hoping for the maid. As he placed his hand upon the door, he quickly withdrew, then rushed towards the other, smashing it open in a truculent motion, eager to appeal his wants. His eyes widened and he began to fret, as a tiger lay asleep, steadily, he receeded. The king ejected from his seat, then emitted a barbaric noise from his mouth in a horrific manner, requesting he immediately be stoned to death or executed, the crowd was exhilarated as the king declared he immediately be stoned to death, as the audience rushed forth, he ran behind the tiger's cage and noticed a whip placed behind him. He rapidly began thrusting it forward at the tiger as he remained sheltered by the metal bars that separated the two, the tiger hence forth, only to swipe the metal bar. Suddenly the tigers door burst open and the crowd began to retreat, the tiger leaped towards the crowd tearing each individual apart piece by piece, the king was electrified at the spectacle that behold. He had never been this excited in his life, he was seeing something more amazing than anything he had ever perceived before. He requested the battle be stopped at once, for the princess's lover had entertained him an extreme amount. The hero watched as five men sprinted into the eccentric battlefield and quickly roped the tiger, forcing it to withdraw. "My dear boy," announced the king, "I now understand that you are much more than a peasant, you are a magnificent man of high intellect who I require to be with my daughter, please, I now realize, it would be an honor!" The hero gladly accepted this request then exited the cage, for he was married on the spot to the beautiful young woman and lived in harmony with the princess for the rest of his uneventful life.