The community college is making it easier for older students to attend college in a number of ways. （periodic sentence）

He hated evening self-study classes. The road to school was long. There were no lights lining the road. （compound-complex sentence）

Susanna was eating the fish. She began to feel sick. （complex sentence）

The shutters are closed tightly to keep cool. It is burning heat outside. （compound sentence）

The teacher assigned the homework to the students that was too difficult.

His grades are not as satisfactory as Jim.

Wading through the stream, a rock cut one of my bare feet.

She closed her eyes. Thinking back through the years of being mother, wife, friend, daughter, and sister.

There is a very beautiful garden on campus, that is my favorite spot.

Read the following paragraph and underline the topic sentence. The most vital difference between Muslims in America and their brothers in Europe is the U.S. enduring emphasis on religious liberty. Religion is given far more respect in the U.S. than in Europe. Think about it. The U.S. is in the midst of a resentful debate over immigration in which many Americans reject “hyphenated （带连字符的） identifies” like Mexican-American as a threat to national unity. Yet while Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Americans may disagree strongly among themselves, the religious basis of their identity is not seriously questioned by anyone. If Muslim Americans are not so readily accepted today, it is not because they are believers. In Europe, by contrast, Muslims are resented and marginalized precisely because their religion threatens strong secular （世俗的） values.