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SENTENCE-COMBINING SKILLS The Need to Combine Sentences Sentences have to be combined to avoid the monotony that would surely result if all sentences were brief and of equal length. Compounding Sentences A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses. That means that there are at least two units of thought within the sentence, either one of which can stand by itself as its own sentence. And the two most common coordinating conjunctions are and and but. (The others are or, for, yet, and so.) This is the simplest technique we have for combining ideas: Meriwether Lewis is justly