5. Several people ran and turned in a fire alarm.
6. In a few minutes the fire engines arrived and began to fight the flames.
7. Crowds came from all directions and silently watched the flames.
8. The people poured out of the theater and cheered the firemen.
9. The half dozen passengers soon recovered and stood on the curbstone in the crowd.
10. The firemen did their work quickly and departed amid the cheers of the crowd.
Exercise 200—Combination of Short Sentences
Sometimes short sentences are bad because two or three of them are needed to express one complete thought. If that is the case, they should be combined, the most important detail being put into the principal clause, and the other details into modifiers, as in the preceding exercise.
Make use of—
1. Adjectives.
2. Adverbs.
3. Participial phrases.
4. Infinitives.
5. Relative pronouns.
6. Subordinate conjunctions.