Sentence Combining Using Coordinating Conjunctions

Sentence Combining Using Coordinating Conjunctions


You can combine sentences in several different ways:

1. Share a word.
2. Insert a group of words (phrases) from one sentence into another sentence.
3. Other times you can combine two related sentences by using a connecting word.

3. Sentence Combining Using Connecting Words (conjunctions):

Another way to combine sentences is by using conjunctions and, but, or, for, nor, so, yet that allow you to join closely related sentences and sentence parts and create compound sentences.

Original: Children didn t want to work in factories. They had to make money.
(indep. clause) (conj) (indep. clause)
Combined: Children didn t want to work in factories, but they had to make money.

If two sentences have the same subject, you can combine them with coordinating conjunctions by making a compound verb.
Original: Children should have the right to participate in political and legal decisions that affect them. Children should get to live free from hunger, abuse, neglect, and other inhumane conditions.

Combined: Children should have the right to participate in political and legal decisions that affect themand should get to live free from hunger, abuse, neglect, and other inhumane conditions.


The two original sentences have the same predicate; therefore, when combined, a compound subject is created.

Original: Children worked in factories. Adults worked in factories

Combined: Children and Adults worked in factories.