16.985 in word form is sixteen and nine hundred and eighty five thousandths.
The town was nearly empty because everyone was watching the championship on TV.
The best way to combine these sentences is to use the conjunction "because".
Last night after the washer broke and flooded the basement, it took us an hour to clean up.
Adding the word after creates a dependent clause which then must be connected to the independent clause to create on sentence.
A little white dog, which belonged to the neighbors, was sitting on the front door.
Changing the second sentence into an adjectival clause allows the two sentences to be combined.
Rosie wanted to go to the lake with us, but she got sick and couldn't go.
Adding a coordinating conjunction (but), allows for both of these sentences to be joined together as a compound sentence.
Istanbul, the biggest city in Turkey, used to be called Constantinople.
By changing the first sentence into an appositive phrase, it allows for the sentences to be easily combined.
Means to be extremely and under emtional stress can cause the soul to actually leave the body.
<span>A black male could not offer his hand (to shake hands) with a white male because it implied being socially equal. Obviously, a black male could not offer his hand or any other part of his body to a white woman, because he risked being accused of sexual harassment <span>Blacks and whites were not supposed to eat together. If they did eat together, whites were to be served first, and some sort of partition was to be placed between them.<span><span>Under no circumstance was a black male to offer to light the cigarette of a white female -- that gesture implied intimacy. </span><span>Blacks were not allowed to show public affection toward one another in public, especially kissing, because it offended whitesJim Crow etiquette prescribed that blacks were introduced to whites, never whites to blacks</span><span>Jim Crow etiquette prescribed that blacks were introduced to whites, never whites to blacks
</span></span>Whites did not use courtesy titles of respect when referring to blacks If a black person rode in a car driven by a white person, the black person sat in the back seat, or the back of a truckWhite motorists had the right-of-way at all intersections<span>Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying.</span><span>Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person.</span><span>Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class.</span><span>Never lay claim to, or overly demonstrate, superior knowledge or intelligence.</span><span>Never curse a white person.</span><span>Never laugh derisively at a white person.<span>Never comment upon the appearance of a white female.</span></span></span>
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