Combine the following sentences in different ways. Use what you know about the different types of clauses, adjective, adverb and subordinate
clauses. Incorporate some sentence variety.
1. The canoe hit a series of rapids. They were swept into the river. They
were carried away by the current.
2. Phil was a college student. He had a great business repairing guitars. He
repaired them with his brother.
3. Littering is a problem in many cities. Nothing is being done about it. It
is a huge problem.
4. Kelly Campbell dropped the batter's third strike. She quickly threw it to
first base. The batter was out at first.
5. It is a hot day in July. They call these days the dog days of summer. It
is humid. It is sticky. It is oppressive. I don't want to go out in this
weather. It is a summer blizzard.

Javier is writing a literary analysis of the secret garden. read this introduction to his essay. frances burnett’s “the secret garden” explores the challenges of a sickly, self-centered little girl named mary lennox. after mary’s parents die of cholera, she moves from india to england to live at her uncle’s estate in yorkshire. while living at the old estate, mary discovers an abandoned garden that belonged to her deceased aunt. tending to the neglected garden brings mary joy, and her health improves. through mary’s transformation, burnett presents nature as a symbol of rebirth and healing. which piece of textual evidence should javier use to support the claim made in the introduction? a. “‘it’s in the garden no one can go into,’ she said to herself. ‘it’s the garden without a door. he lives in there. how i wish i could see what it is like! ’” b. “in india she had always felt hot and too languid to care much about anything. the fact was that the fresh wind from the moor had begun to blow the cobwebs out of her young brain and to waken her up a little.” c. “mary felt lonelier than ever when she knew she was no longer in the house. she went out into the garden as quickly as possible, and the first thing she did was to run round and round the fountain flower garden ten times.” d. “‘it isn’t a quite dead garden,’ she cried out softly to herself. ‘even if the roses are dead, there are other things alive.’”