Welcome to Book 5: Compound Sentences, a book that teaches four simple ways to join two sentences together.

The twenty lessons in this book are dedicated to learning the four ways we compound sentences-with coordinating conjunctions, with conjunctive adverbs, with semicolons, and with colons-and include discussions of the following:

-when to use and how to punctuate with coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs
-semicolons and mirror-image sentences
-the meaning of the colon
-subjects and verbs in compound sentences
-composing with compound sentences
-beginning sentences with conjunctions
-so vs. so that
-compound sentences vs. less-than compound sentences
-the short conjunctive adverb exception
-moving conjunctive adverbs to the right
-two exceptions to the comma
-moving between types of compound sentences

A conscious attention to the many writing options provided by compounding sentences is essential to skillful writing.