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TYPICAL ERROR

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Synthesize (combine) each of these sets of sentences into one sentence by creating a non-defining adjectival clause out of the second sentence.

aIn the Bronze Age, people learnt to mix tin and copper to make bronze. The Bronze Age followed the New Stone Age.



bThe first Olympic Games were staged in honour of Zeus. They were held in 776 BC.



cPeople in the New Stone Age learnt how to domesticate animals and to grow crops. The New Stone Age started around 8000 BC.



dDinosaurs became extinct when a comet hit earth. They lived from 150 million years ago until 65 million years ago.



eThe world's first known printed text was printed in 868 in China using a block printing method. It was a book of Buddhist scripture.