Sentence Joining Exercises, English homework help

After reading about coordination and subordination in The Easy Writer,

please complete the following. Join the following sentences with

subordinators, making sure the word you choose indicates the appropriate

logical connection between ideas.

1. They sat down with Red Cloud to discuss the purchase of the Black Hills. Whatever calmness the government commissioners still possessed must have been shaken.

1. Red Cloud calmly proposed that $600 million seemed like a fair price. The region was so valuable to the Native Americans and appeared even more valuable to the commissioners.

1. The Native Americans had reconsidered their price tag. They suggested that $6 million would be a reasonable offer.

1. The commissioners were too intimidated to negotiate. They returned to Washington and angrily recommended teaching the Native Americans a lesson.

1. The government immediately ordered all Native Americans to come onto the reservation at once. The demand was both illegal and impossible to comply with.

1. Most of the Native Americans could never know about the order. They were spread out all over the Black Hills.

1. The deadline came. Only one small band of Native Americans had come in.

1. The other Native Americans were now assumed at war with the government. The Indian Bureau turned the matter over to General Philip Sheridan.

1. It was a totally unprovoked war. No Sioux or Cheyenne had ever violated a treaty or actually attacked a U.S. citizen.