1. Add a compound verb to each of these sentence beginnings. Be sure to add the correct punctuation at the end of each sentence. The boy and his father
The dog and the cat
Monday and Tuesday
My birthday and the last day of school
The frog and the lizard

2. Combine each set of simple sentences to form a compound sentence. Be sure to use the correct punctuation.

Green McCurtain was a Choctaw Indian. He organized the Tuskahoma Party.

Green McCurtain was elected Principal Chief. He served as Principal Chief for 12 years.

Green McCurtain spoke the English language fluently. His speeches were always delivered in the Choctaw language.

Green McCurtain was the last Principal Chief of the Choctaws. Before being elected Principal Chief, he served his nation as treasurer and senator.

Governor McCurtain was a big man. He was a vigorous fighter who never acknowledged defeat.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft. a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring. what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman. a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes. a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit. a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.