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.
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People were shoveling the driveways and sidewalks, but there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
Leah Eng 140
My Original post was missing an entire sentence due to a copy and paste error. :(
Proper answer: As the snow lay heavily on the ground, people were shoveling the driveways and sidewalks. As such, there was little traffic on the roads until the plows had cleared the major routes.
Leah Eng 140
Good try, Leah. But you wrote two sentences, not one.
In this case, a few simple 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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