Thursday, December 11, 2008

SENTENCE COMBINATION, Dec. 11,09

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

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


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3 comments:

uzma said...

There was little traffic on the roads, people were shoveling drive ways and sidewalks and piling up heavily snow laid on the ground into Snow Mountains,until the snow ploughs had cleared the major routes.

Tamara said...

Uzma: Good try here but there are a few little mistakes. Think about punctuation (especially comma use) and capitalization and also try to keep ideas that are linked together.

maya said...

People were shoveling the heavily laid snow off driveways and sidewalks, piling it up into snow mountains; and only after the snow ploughs had cleared the major routes did the usual traffic resume.