A writer combined the sentences below into a single sentence. Analyze the combination sentence, and evaluate
whether the writer met the stated goal.
Writing goal: These two simple sentences are to be combined to form a compound sentence.
We cannot see the parade from our house.
Our house has too many tall trees around it.
The result is this:
We cannot see the parade from our house because our house has too many tall trees around it.
This result is

Read the excerpt from part 2 of zeitoun. zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. the day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. . he could only think of judgment day, of noah and forty days of rain. and yet it was so quiet, so still. nothing moved. he sat on the roof and scanned the horizon, looking for any person, any animal or machine moving. nothing. as he did his morning prayers, a helicopter broke the silence, shooting across the treetops and heading downtown. why does the author include the details of zeitoun’s morning? to suggest the hopelessness of zeitoun’s situation to illustrate the solitary existence endured by survivors to establish zeitoun’s dedication to the rituals of his faith to reveal the military’s attempts at assistance