Combine short sentences

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important

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as i said a lot of my students tend to

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form quite basic sentences in their

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writings it could be a paragraph with

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five six or even seven short basic

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sentences

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and what you need to be able to do is to

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link those sentences

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by forming compound sentences so that's

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my first tip use more compound sentences

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a compound sentence is simply a sentence

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with two or more subjects

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so basically it's two independent

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clauses which you link together or you

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connect

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with a linking word of some kind and you

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can use one of these seven linking words

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so and but

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so

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yet

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nor

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or and for so a very simple example the

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first text discusses issues of

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technology in modern society

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it doesn't mention social media

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okay so those are two

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simple basic sentences

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very simply you can link them by using

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but the first text discusses the issue

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of technology in modern society but it

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doesn't mention social media you think

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that's too simple well maybe substitute

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but for yet so yet it doesn't mention

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social media