Combining sentences Coordinators and （结合句子协调员和）.pdf

Combining sentences –Coordinators and Sentence Connectors My sentences are short. They are simple. Each contains only one idea. They cannot express complex thoughts. Short sentences get boring. They are all alike. They make me sound like a small child. (from Meyers, Gateways to Academic Writing, Pearson Longman 2005, p. 308) When writing a paragraph or an essay, you need to have some variety in your sentences; otherwise, they will sound like the short paragraph above. One way of making sentences more interesting is to connect short sentences to make longer ones. You can do this by using coordinators. The most useful coordinators are: and –connects two ideas but –connects two opposite ideas, shows contrast or –shows an alternative or choice so –shows a result Exercise 1 – complete the following sentences with the correct coordinator 1. I like pizza, ______ I dont like lahmacun. 2. I passed the final proficiency exam, ______ next year I can begin my undergraduate degree. 3. This weekend we can go to the park, _______ we can go to the cinema. 4. My brother is tall, ______ he is also very skinny. Instead of coordinators, you can also use other words called sentence connectors. Sentence connectors and coordinators have similar meanings, but are used in different ways. 1 Coordinators come in the middle of a sentence, while sentence connectors are used at the beginning of a new sentence, or after a semicolon. For example: I like pizza, but I dont like lahmacun. I like pizza. However, I dont like lahma