This response provides examples and explanations for combining independent and dependent clauses into compound, complex, or compound-complex sentences.
Here are the solutions:
1. I'm going to walk home after class today; it's 70 degrees and sunny outside, so I might as well enjoy it!
2. What time are you finishing work today? The movie starts at 7.
3. The grass needs to be cut already, as it has grown so much recently due to the rain.
4. I'm not going to see that horror movie because the preview was terrifying!
5. You must submit your exam by 6 p.m. today because it counts for 50% of your grade, so you don't want to be late.
6. Are you taking a taxi or public transportation to the exhibition? Let me know what time so I can know when to meet you.
7. Don't forget to bring the tickets; you need to scan them or they won't let us in.
8. What are you making for dinner tonight? Spaghetti and meatballs again?
9. I'm making an eggplant lasagna for dinner tonight; it's my grandmother's recipe.
10. That movie was too long, if you ask me; I fell asleep halfway through.
11. Before we book a flight, we should make sure we have a place to stay at my aunt's.
12. After they heard the winner announced, Greg's friends congratulated him; then, they teased him to take them out for pizza.
13. The floor was slippery after she spilled the juice on it; she needed to clean it up before someone fell.
14. My kitten had its first birthday; I guess it means he's not a kitten anymore, but a cat.
15. My brother is playing video games again, like he does every day.