970. Practice with Compound Sentences

Section A: Add punctuation into each sentence to make it correct.
1. John plays basketball and Julie plays softball.
2. The rain has stopped we can take a walk.
3. I want to buy food for dinner but I lost my wallet.
4. Mom baked a cake so we can have a party.
5. The night is cool we should light a fire.

Section B: Choose the best coordinating conjunction for each sentence (one of the FANBOYS)
6. Mom gave me money, ___ we should get some popcorn.
7. It looks warm outside, ____ it is actually cold.
8. I brought lemonade, ____ Sam brought hot dogs.

Answers: 1- basketball, and 2- stopped; we 3- dinner, but 4- cake, so 5-cool; we
6- so; 7- but; 8-and

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