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Exercise S6-1
Using coordination and subordination
The sentences in this exercise are all taken from one paragraph about the baseball player Ted Williams. The following is the first sentence in the paragraph, written using coordination: "Ted Williams was one of the best hitters in the history of baseball, but he never won a World Series ring."
Use the coordination or subordination technique in brackets to combine each pair of independent clauses. Type your answers in the boxes below.
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Suggested revision: Williams played for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960, and he managed the Washington Senators and Texas Rangers for several years after retiring as a player.
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Suggested revision: In 1941, Williams finished the season with a batting average of .406; no player has hit over .400 for a season since then.
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Suggested revision: Although he acknowledged that Joe DiMaggio was a better all-around player, Williams felt that he was a better hitter than DiMaggio.
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Suggested revision: Williams was a stubborn man; for example, he always refused to tip his cap to the crowd after a home run because he claimed that fans were fickle.
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Suggested revision: Williams’s relationship with the media was unfriendly at best; he sarcastically called baseball writers the “knights of the keyboard” in his memoir.