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English Language Resource Center, C-212
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Combining Sentences: Adjective Clauses
Directions: In the text-area below each group of sentences, combine the sentences given into one
good sentence. Use the second sentence as an adjective clause.
When you are finished, you can check the answer key to see one or two ways to write that sentence.
Try to write your own sentence before you check the answer key.
1. 1986 was the year.
Halley’s Comet appeared then.
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2. Elizabeth remembers the casino.
She won $25,000 there (in that casino).
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3. Shirley Chisholm ran for president in 1972.
She was a Congresswoman from New York.
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4. Hillary Rodham Clinton was a senator from New York.
Her husband used to be the President of the United States.
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5. A boy won the national spelling contest.
He lives in North Carolina.
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6. Tom has had ten cars.
Three of them were station wagons.
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7. I know a woman.
Her brother is famous.
