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Ney, James W. – 1981
Sentence combining exercises present material to the students to be mastered by processes similar to memorization. By taking ideas in short sentences and compacting them into larger sentences, students become familiar with the relationships between the ideas in the short sentences. At its best, sentence combining is a process that requires the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Language Acquisition, Language Processing
