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SENTENCE COMBINING SKILLS - The Writing Center

French fur-trader Charbonneau, accompanied the expedition as a translator. Notice that in the second sentence above, Sacagawea's name is a parenthetical element (structurally, the sentence adequately identifies her as "a pregnant, fifteen-year-old Indian woman"), and thus her name is set off by commas; Charbonneau's name, however, is essential to