Combine the ideas of each of the following sentences into
one effective simple or complex sentence.
1. The Hudson
River originates in the Adirondacks.
It empties into the Atlantic Ocean.
It is named for Henry Hudson.
He was an English explorer.
2. Phillis
Wheatley was an eighteenth-century American poet.
She grew up as a slave in Boston.
Her book of poetry was first published in England.
3. Our tour
bus stopped at Loch Ness.
It is a lake in Scotland.
It is more than twenty miles long.
A legendary monster makes its home there.
4. The Greater
Snow Goose is white with black-tipped wings.
It breeds in the Arctic.
It migrates in winter to the coast of the Middle
Atlantic states.
5. H. L.
Mencken was a journalist.
He wrote a book entitled The American Language.
It was first published in 1919.
It reflects his interest in American English.
6. Children
enjoy Halloween.
It is celebrated on the night of October 31.
It evolved from ancient fall festivals.
The Irish and Scots brought it to this country.
7. Nicolaus
Copernicus was an astronomer.
He was born in Poland on February 19, 1473.
He perceived that the earth revolves around the sun.
Thus, the earth is not the center of the universe.
8. Runes are
symbols of an ancient alphabet.
They were brought to England by Germanic tribes.
Some persons thought that they had magical powers.
They were replaced by the letters of the Roman
alphabet.
9. Dante
Gabriel Rossetti was an English painter.
He married Elizabeth Biddal.
She was his model as well as his wife.
His father was a political exile from Italy.
10. Last
summer we went to the mountains of North Carolina.
We visited a restored Indian village.
The Indians were Cherokee.
The name of the village is Oconaluftee.
11. The Norse
gods and goddesses were not eternally young.
They preserved their youth by eating
magical apples.
The goddess Idun kept these apples.
She was the goddess of spring and youth.
12. Juan
Pablos was an Italian printer.
He lived in Spain.
He migrated to Mexico in 1539.
He was probably the first printer in the
Americas.
I read this in The Book by Douglas
McMurtie.
13. The couple
set out for Fairbanks on the Alcan Highway.
They had two dogs.
The dogs’ names were Homer and Horace.
The couple sent the two dogs by air to
their new station.
14. The Gulf
Stream is an ocean current.
It originates in the Gulf of Mexico.
It flows along the east coast of the United
States.
Near Nantucket it turns out into North
America.
15. David was
a shepherd boy from Israel.
He played the lyre.
His music comforted King Saul.
King Saul suffered from dark moods.
