Build Better Sentences

Expand, combine, and reduce sentences to improve meaning, interest, clarity, and style.

How the lesson starts: Build Better Sentences

Gizmo's glue
Gizmo is a robot who repairs sentences. Some arrive choppy: short sentences that repeat themselves. Gizmo's first tool is glue, to combine them into one smooth sentence.
Ways to glue
Same thing described twice? The tunnel was dark. The tunnel was rocky. Glue it: the tunnel was dark and rocky. Same action twice? Mateo washed the cups and the plates. Two linked ideas? Use because or but.
Let's glue one
We stayed inside. The storm was strong. How do they link? The storm is the reason. Keep the order and glue with because: we stayed inside because the storm was strong. Watch out for an extra tile like or that doesn't fit!