Sentence Practice 3

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9. Main clauses connected with conjunctive adverbs and transitional phrases

Sentence Practice 3

This activity contains 5 questions.

It is not the case that raindrops are all one shape_____ instead, their shapes may vary.

, (comma); (semicolon)

Some people think that raindrops are shaped like teardrops; in reality_____ however, they are not.

; (semicolon), (comma)

Raindrops begin as spheres_____ as they fall, they become distorted by water surface tension and air pressure.

; (semicolon), (comma)

Some drops become doughnut-shaped_____ in other words, they have a depression in the middle.

, (comma); (semicolon)

Larger drops are separated by surface tension and pressure; as a result _____ they break into two smaller spheres.

; (semicolon), (comma)

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