Question

Hearing the sound of hammering from aside street, Reuben had an idea. ( Rewrite using 'and')

Answer 1

Reuben heard the sound of hammering from aside street, and had an idea.

Answer 2

One way to punctuate a compound sentence correctly is to join the two independent clauses with a semicolon and a coordinating conjunction.

Coordinating conjunctions are the words which connect clauses and phrases. There are seven coordinating conjunctions that are, yet, so, or, for, and, nor, and but.

Therefore, when the sentence is joined with 'and' it would be written as:

Reuben heard the sound of hammering from aside street, and had an idea.