D-15.01 Combine Clauses to Show Connections Between Ideas, Contrasts, Results & Time Relationships

Parts One, Two, & Four of Chapter 8: Joining Sentences  (“Health & Illness”) of WorkLife English Grammar 3: An Immigration Story, pages 129-139, 144-145 13 pages Who It’s For: (Self-)Teachers & Helpers at Intermediate & Beyond Proficiency Levels Ready to Understand & Form Longer, Better-Sounding Sentences of Relational Clauses Why It’s Useful: In media and online speech & writing, most full sentences consist of (Independent) Clauses only, which usually work adequately for explicit purposes. Even so, to efficiently show relationships among ideas or thoughts, (almost) fluent English users will naturally begin combining short sentences with Coordinating Conjunctions such as and, or, but, or so. Soon to follow will be Subordinate Conjunctions of Cause & Effect or Time Relationships. These excerpts provide a good start.   What You’ll Do:  [1] In perusing the page 129 Chapter 8: Health & Illness Opener, notice how the parsed Grammar Topics address purpo