The wind howling in the scraggly trees and barren bushes. Then it stopped and the pounding rains started, they went on for the next forty hours without diminishing in force.
Edit the following passages for comma splices, sentence fragments, and run-ons only. Each entry may have more than one error.
he wind howled in the scraggly trees and barren bushes. (or ; t) Then it stopped and the pounding rains started; (or . T) they went on for the next forty hours without diminishing in force.
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