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ACTIVITY 9 Building Greater Sentences

Combine these short sentences into one sentence. You can add new words and move words around,
but you should not add or omit any ideas. More than one answer is possible. These sentences require
compound sentences and the addition of and, but, or so.

1. a. Human babies are born very helpless.
b. Human babies are more helpless than other animal newborns.
c. Human babies need to stay with their parents.
d. Human babies stay with their parents for a very long time.

2. a. There has been a lot of research on mindfulness training.
b. Research shows that mindfulness training can improve people’s physical and mental health.
c. No one is sure how or why mindfulness training helps.

3. a. Scientists are using the laws of math to estimate things.
b. Scientists estimate how many living species are on the earth.
c. Scientists estimate that there may be about one trillion.

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