Breaking Up And Combining Sentences
Ex. 40 H
Split up or break up into Separate sentences:
(a) Combined sentence
The boy is good and clever.
Separate sentences
(a) The boy is good.
(b) The boy is clever.
1. The bat has wings and can fly.
2. He can read and write well.
3. Its wings are not made of feathers but of this skin.
4. Both birds and beasts have feet.
5. Neither a bat nor a mouse lays eggs.
6. They can neither read nor write.
7. There was once a Brahmin who lived in Poona.
8. He was old and feeble.
(b) Combined sentence
A wolf coming to a brook to drink, saw a lamb standing in the stream.
Separate sentences
a) A wolf came to a
brook to drink.
b) He saw a lamb.
c) The lamb was stand- ing in the stream.
Read and Learn more Synthesis of Sentences
1. The cats stopped and loking into the room, saw a cake.
2. A wild rose is not so beautiful nor so large as a garden rose; nor so sweet.
3. He had a kind father and mother and a happy home.
4. Why do you not seize the robber or atleast bark and rouse the master?
5. The groom awoke and rushing took the prince and threw him into a dark prison.
6. As I was riding on my bicycle a boy came running towards me when I had to stop suddenly so that the boy might not be hurt.
Combine into one sentence:
Separate sentences Combined sentence
a) The boy was young. The brave young boy fought with the dog and
b.) He was brave. saved his little sister.
(c) He fought with the dog.
d) He saved his sister.
e) She was little.
1. The boy was little. The boy lost his book. The book was new. He lost it yeaterday. He lost it in the morning.
2. Theman was tall. He struck his head. He was entering a room. The room was small.
3. The cow is black. The cow is grazing. The cow is grazing in a field. The field is beside the canal.
4. The father was kind. He brought some clothes. The clothes were new. He brought them for the children. The children were good.
5. The boy was careless. He made blots. The blots were big. They were made on his book. The book was clean.
6. The bucket was old .It was made of teak… fell into the well. The well was deep.
7. Rama had a slate. It was new. He broke it. He broke it in the morning.
8. There are no trees in the desert. There is no grass in the desert. There are no flowers in the desert.
9. The giant could roll away the stone. No one else could roll it away. Odysseus remembered.
10. The coolie came to the well. He came in the morning. He came very early. The side of the well had fallen in. The coolie saw this.