Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
The Joad family lived in Oklahoma.
The time was the 1930s, during the Great Depression.
The dust storms hit the area.
The Joad family headed for California.
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Ques. 2Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
One certain cause was that ordinary people had not been able to buy expensive items produced in American factories.
Fully 60 percent of all American families earned less than 2,000 a year.
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Ques. 3Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
Many historians have studied the Great Depression.
They do not all agree on the causes.
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Ques. 4Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
Around 9 million people lost their savings accounts.
Unemployment soared from 3.2 percent in 1929 to 25 percent in 1933.
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Ques. 5Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
By 1932, factory production had been cut in half.
About 86,000 businesses had failed, and almost 9,000 banks had closed.
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Ques. 6Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
Industrial production, prices, and wages fell sharply.
A long business slump known as the Great Depression began.
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Ques. 7Rewrite each set of sentences to make an effective compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence.
At first, the crash appeared to have hurt only the million or so people who had gambled and lost on the stock market.
Within a few months of the crash, unemployment rates began to rise.
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