2. A rambling sentence can appear in your writing when you connect several simple ideas with the word and.

3. I went to the dentist yesterday and when I got there, I had to wait forever to see him and when he finally examined my teeth, he found four cavities and now I have to go back next week to get fillings and I don’t want to go. Example

4. I went to the dentist yesterday. When I got there, I had to wait forever to see him. When he finally examined my teeth, he found four cavities. Now I have to go back next week to get fillings, and I don’t want to go. Corrected Sentences

5. Our student council wanted to help families in need in our community, so we decided that we would have a canned food drive, but we needed to get students involved on a “massive” scale, and that is no small challenge.

6. Treasure hunters searching for a hot treasure prospect read old newspapers and magazines while the rest of us work regular jobs.

7. My brother is taking bowling lessons at the bowling alley, and my sister is practicing her gymnastic routines while we wait for my mom to pick us up, but she will probably be late, so we will have to go to a drive-thru to pick up dinner.

8. Since it looked like a great day for swimming, we headed to the beach with our towels and sunscreen.

9. The oceans are great bodies of water that cover more than 70 percent of the world’s surface and are commonly referred to as seas with the Pacific Ocean being by far the largest individual ocean and covering nearly a third of the earth’s surface.

10. The woman checked her numbers and realized that she held the winning lottery ticket, so she started jumping up and down and called her boss to immediately quit her job and then drove to the nearest shopping mall to buy some new shoes, but the mall was closed.