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Friday, August 17, 2012

Writing More Complex Sentences


Here are two related sentences

Daniel has some very interesting ideas.
He is a leading thinker in his field.


Combing these two sentences makes a much more elegant sentence:

Daniel, who is a leading thinker in his field, has some very interesting ideas.

The example sentence uses a relative pronoun to combine the two sentences through a relative clause. This combination exercise focuses on changing two simple sentence into complex sentences.