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This chapter is about how to move past using simple basic sentences into
using compound sentences. When sentences are combined they give a
natural flow and rhythm to your writing that using all short sentences
doesn't create.



Compound sentences are created through coordination. Coordination is
taking two or more independent clauses and putting them into the same
sentence using either a conjunction or a semicolon or both.



The most important element to making coordinated sentences is to be
certain that you are joining two independent clauses instead of clauses
and phrases. In addition to studying the conjunctions, you will also
study the punctuation patterns for compound sentences. This chapter will
cover three different methods for combining sentences: using a
coordinating conjunction, using a conjunctive adverb, or using just a
semicolon. By the time you have completed this chapter you should be
able to write sentences that varying in length so that your writing has
a more flowing style.