Practicing Conjunctions Task 2 The following paragraph contains only independent clauses and no conjunctions. Use conjunctions to specify the relationships between the ideas in the paragraph. Discuss your answers and other potential answers with your

Practicing Conjunctions
Task 2 The following paragraph contains only independent clauses and no conjunctions. Use conjunctions to specify the relationships between the ideas in the paragraph. Discuss your answers and other potential answers with your partner.

_____ the drones attacked, American officials had “no reason to believe either hostage was present,” according to Earnest. United States officials also did not know that Farouq or Gadahn were present at the targeted sites, and “neither was specifically targeted.”

_____ in a press briefing Thursday, Earnest said U.S. officials believed with “near certainty” there were no hostages at the site of the strike even _____ U.S. officials had conducted "hundreds of hours of surveillance" on the al Qaeda compound and "near continuous surveillance in the days leading up to the operation." “Unfortunately, _____ that (assessment) was not correct, the operation led to this tragic, unintended consequence,” Earnest said.

Task 4 Edit the following run-on sentence by adding conjunctions to connect the clauses, or by adding more words if necessary.

1. 
   The first dog I had after graduating from college was named Fred and he was a great dog and he loved to play ball and get a bath but he also had a tendency to chew my shoes and plants when he was a puppy that made me very angry.
   

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2. 
   The other day John got a speeding ticket when he was driving through a school zone at forty- five kilometers per hour and the speed limit was only fifteen kilometers per hour but he didn’t realize it was the first day of school so he wasn’t paying too much attention to the traffic sign in the middle of the road and he was very angry at the policeman because he was rude and would not give him a break.
   

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3. 
   Telephones are probably one of the best and most convenient devices produced in the twentieth century because you can call anyone, anytime from just about anywhere especially now that there are so many cell phones available and telephones don’t really cost that much to buy or to use.
   

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