Question

Use the sentences to answer the question.
Franklin spent an hour researching at the library last night. He checked out four books to finish
the project at home.
Which one shows how these sentences can be manipulated to create a compound sentence
that has the same meaning as the original sentences?
(1 point)
Franklin spent an hour researching at the library last night, and he checked out four books to
finish the project at home.
To finish the project at home, Franklin brought home four books after he spent an hour
researching at the library last night.
Franklin checked out four books from the library; he had already spent an hour researching last
night.
After spending an hour researching at the library last night, Franklin decided to finish the project
at home and checked out four books.

Answer 1

The option that shows how the original sentences can be manipulated to create a compound sentence with the same meaning is:

**Franklin spent an hour researching at the library last night, and he checked out four books to finish the project at home.**