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cream. Cover the ice cream with whipped cream and chopped nuts.
Top everything with a cherry.
IV. Grammar Sentence combining with adverb clauses
Use the subordinate conjunctions before, after, until, when, and while
to combine the clauses below. (While is used with a progressive tense.)
Write each sentence in two ways: with the main clause first; then with
the subordinate clause first.
Example: Shirley took all the food out.
before
The women began to cook.
Shirley took all the food out before the women
began to cook.
Before the women began to cook, Shirley took all the
food out.
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1. Lavonne cut the bananas in half.
She peeled them.
after
2. Linda was heating the sauce.
Shirley was scooping out ice cream.
while
3. The sauce was heating.
while
Linda was chopping nuts.
(Write one sentence
4. Lavonne whipped the cream.
only, main clause first)
until
It was stiff.
5. The sauce (it) was hot. (Use a pronoun
Shirley poured the sauce (it) when in the second
over the ice cream.
clause.)
6. Shirley poured the sauce.
Lavonne put on the whipped before
cream.
(Use a pronoun
7. Linda (she) put on nuts.
in the second
after
Linda (she) put on cherries.
clause
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V. Grammar Review of articles, some as a quantifier
Remember that noncount and plural nouns do not take an article when
the meaning is general, or when they are mentioned for the first time. In
many cases, however, the word some is used to give the idea of
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