Question

[1] In the beginning, there was no land, only the great ocean. [2] The Sky-World, the home of the gods, was above the ocean. [3] A sacred tree stood at the center. [4] One of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife. [5] This created a hole in the floor of the Sky-World. [6] The man's wife fell through the hole toward the ocean below, clutching the roots in her hand.

Which is the best way to combine sentences 4 and 5?

Answer 1

One of the gods pulled out some of its roots for his pregnant wife creating a hole in the floor of the Sky-World.

Answer 2

One of the gods created a whole in the floor of the Sky-world by pulling out some of its roots for his pregnant wife.

Step-by-step explanation:

You can combine both sentences by making them actually a single sentence, as in, one whole piece of information (as it is above).

There are others way to use punctuation and connectives to do so, but they might loose a bit of the flow that a single sentence might have.