Rewrite the following passage; combine thoughts to produce compound sentences and show logical relationships by subordinating less important clauses to more important ones. use proper conjunctions, and use verbals or phrases wherever needed.

the sky was growing gray. the clouds were darkening. the sun was low. it was tinged with red. a biting wind blew. it was from the north. the tree branches whispered. the birds did not sing. they had gone to sleep. i was lonely. i thought about a warm walk last spring.

The sky and clouds were darkening to a gray color. The red tinged sun was low in the sky. A biting wind blew in from the north making the tree branches whisper. The birds were quiet as they had already gone to sleep. I was lonely as I thought about a warm walk last spring.

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form