Friday, January 31, 2014

*SENTENCE COMBINATION*

Learning to combine ideas into more complex sentences is an important writing skill. There are many ways to do this. Try to combine the following three sentences.

Sentence 1The snow lay heavily on the ground.
Sentence 2People were shovelling their driveways and sidewalks.
Sentence 3There was little traffic on the roads until the ploughs had cleared the major routes.

5 comments:

Doris177 said...

The snow lay heavily on the ground causing little traffic on the rods until the ploughs had cleared the major routes and people were shovelling their driveways and sidewalks.

Unknown said...

The snow lay heavily on the ground and there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes; people were shovelling their driveways and sidewalks.

Aman#177 said...

People were shovelling their driveways and sidewalks when the snow lay heavily on the ground , and there was little traffic on the roads until the ploughs had cleared the major routes.

Taniam4 said...

People were shovelling their driveways and sidewalks, because snow lay heavily on the ground, there was little traffic on the roads until the ploughs had cleared the major routes.

Michael said...

Goof effort, everyone!

Doris: I'm not sure "causing" is the verb you want here.

Amanda: Can you think of a way to combine the last sentence without using a semi-colon?

Aman: Good job!

Taniam4: Watch out -- you don't need the comma before "because", and the clause after that ("there was...") is a comma splice.