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.