Combining Sentences With Verbs

You can combine sentences that are about the same subject.  This makes your writing flow and sound better.

If two sentences are about the same subject, like these two sentences:

John played football.  John scored a touchdown.


Then, we can combine those two sentences into one sentence.  Like this:

John played football and scored a touchdown.


In our combined sentence, we used the subject John, and we combined the two actions into one sentence by connecting them with the word "and".


Let's try another example:

Sarah ran in the race.  Sarah finished in first place.


We can combine those sentences to make one sentence.

Sarah ran in the race and finished in first place.

Again, we combined the two sentences by keeping the subject Sarah and combining the two actions by connecting them with the word "and".

Now, you try.  Leave a comment below to show how to combine these two sentences:

I read this page.  I learned how to combine sentences.