Sentence 1: The snow lay heavily on the ground.
Sentence 2: People were shoveling the driveways and sidewalks.
Sentence 3: There was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
Sentence 2: People were shoveling the driveways and sidewalks.
Sentence 3: There was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
2 comments:
Since the snow laid heavily on the ground, there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes, and people were shoveling the driveways and sidewalks.
Good try, Charlesbe12. But I don't see the logic of your last conjunction ("and"). Remember, the point of this exercise is not simply to join the sentences together, but to make a *meaningful* complex sentence.
In this case, a few coordinating conjunctions might suffice:
The snow lay heavily on the ground, and people were shoveling the driveways and sidewalks, but there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
Otherwise, you might try to use a relative pronoun:
Although people were shoveling the snow, which lay heavily on the ground, from the driveways and sidewalks, there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
Or you could even make the first sentence into a modifier:
Although people were shoveling the heavy snow from the driveways and sidewalks, there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
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