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Women in Burkina Faso enjoy
talking as they prepare flour.

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, but these sentences require
noun clauses.
1. a. Aristotle observed something.
b. Having a sense of purpose in life is connected to something.
c. The connection is a feeling of happiness.

2. a. Exercise helps prevent certain types of diseases.
b. Exercise does not help with weight loss.
c. How this happens is the topic of a recent health study.

3. a. Sports experts had doubts.
b. They doubted if anyone could beat a record.
c. The record was the four-minute mile.
d. This was in 1954.

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