Creating Complex Sentences
Combine the extra details on the right with the sentences on the left to make
wonderful new complex sentences:
Vaclav bought a house.
£800,000, farm, 3 acres
of land
Vaclav bought a farm house with three acres of land for £800,000.
Vaclav spent £800,000 on a farm house with three acres of land.
Vaclav bought two eight-hundred-thousand-pound farm houses with three
acres of land.
A girl came into Chao’s bedroom.
wear a belly dancing
costume, 16 years old
Wearing a belly-dancing costume, a sixteen-year-old girl came into Chao’s
bedroom.
A sixteen-year-old girl came into Chao’s bedroom wearing a belly-dancing
costume.
A sixteen-year-old girl wearing a belly-dancing costume came into Chao’s
bedroom.
A sixteen-year-old girl, who was wearing a belly-dancing costume, came into
Chao’s bedroom.
Bandar needs some nails.
six inches long, steel
Bandar needs some six-inch-long steel nails.
adapted from Headway Advanced (Oxford)
Concorde was a plane.
fastest in the world,
passenger
Concorde was the fastest passenger plane in the world.
Farisa used to be a lecturer.
Oxford University ,
much-respected,
economics
Farisa used to be a much-respected lecturer in economics at Oxford
University.
Farisa used to be a much-respected economics lecturer at Oxford University.
Much-respected Farisa...
Naif has just started a job.
$100,000 per year,
accountants, New York,
firm
Naif has just started a $100,000-per-year job in accounting at a firm in New
York.
Naif has just started a $100,000-per-year job as an accountant at a firm in
New York.
Naif has just started a $100,000-per-year accounting job at a firm in New
York.
Naif has just started a $100,000-per-year job at a New York accountancy
firm .
New York’s accountancy firm = only one accountancy firm in / serving NY
adapted from Headway Advanced (Oxford)
Omar bought a picture.
two men working, a
field, 300 years old
Omar bought a 300-year-old picture of two men working in a field.
Seiko had a meal.
four courses, less than
£20, 2 bottles of wine,
fantastic.
Naif was on a flight.
twelve hours, stopovers in Delhi and
Moscow, long
The pile-up has finally been cleared.
forty-car, M1, police,
caused by yesterday’s
freak weather
conditions
Passengers can expect delays.
Pan Am Airways, 3
hours, New York
adapted from Headway Advanced (Oxford)