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Sentence Combining

1. a. My favorite movie is a cartoon. b. My favorite movie is //The Little Mermaid.//

2. a. H. H. Holmes was the first American serial killer. b. He confessed to 27 murders.

3. a. Elevators are the safest form of modern transportation. b. Only 26 people die per year from elevator accidents worldwide.

4. a. String theory is not widely accepted by astrophysicists. b. String theory is also called “the theory of everything.”

5. a. There is a city in Alaska called “Unalaska.” b. It is in Aleutian islands.