Your Assignment

The following paragraph has no capitalization to mark sentence beginnings, or
end marks to indicate their endings. Rewrite the paragraph, insert a period after the last word of each sentence, and capitalize the first word of the sentence.When you are finished, write the number of sentences that combine both an independent and a dependent clause.


Number of sentences with both an independent and a dependent clause: _____

Before weather forecasters used satellites and radar, people looked
for clues in nature for predicting the weather since people did not have
sophisticated equipment, they watched the behavior of animals, birds, and
insects some signs are reliable, but others should not be trusted here are
some examples of what people once believed if you can see a groundhog’s
shadow on February 2, there will be six more weeks of winter when the sky
is red at sunset, good weather will follow when the sky is red at sunrise, the
weather can’t be trusted Germans kept frogs to predict rain because frogs
croak more in low air pressure pinecones have been used to forecast weather
because they open up in dry weather they close up when the weather is
damp we are lucky that weather forecasting techniques have improved.