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