Although she was sick, she still stayed up late to do homework.
→ Despite her illness, she still stayed up late to do homework. / In spite of being sick, she still stayed up late to do homework.
Although the test was difficult, he did it well.
→ Despite the difficulty of the test, he did it well. / In spite of the test being difficult, he did it well.
Although it was raining heavily, he went out without a raincoat.
→ Despite the heavy rain, he went out without a raincoat. / In spite of it raining heavily, he went out without a raincoat.
Although the sky was grey and cloudy, we went to the beach.
→ Despite the grey and cloudy sky, we went to the beach. / In spite of the sky being grey and cloudy, we went to the beach.
Though the watch had a high price, but Mary still bought it (Find one mistake and correct it)
→ Though the watch had a high price, Mary still bought it. / Although the watch had a high price, Mary still bought it.