「〜ますし」の文法と意味は何ですか。

> 例）「しかしわたしたちは、雪の下で何が起きているか **わかりますし** 、起きていることを想像することもできます。」

この「し」の使い方と意味を説明していただけませんか。
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「〜ますし」の文法と意味は何ですか。
I'll answer in English since I think it might be better for the readers of
this forum who are more comfortable reading explanations in English.

The word "し" in this case is used after a verb or i-adjective in order to give
a feeling of "and", but in a more disconnected sense than using the して (分かりまして
in this case) form. Perhaps you could think of it a little like ending the
sentence there, and then adding a ”そして” before the next part.

The word is used in both written and spoken language (perhaps more in the
latter), and when spoken the intonation on the し drops slightly, and is
generally followed by a pause.

Here it is used after the -masu form, so わかります + し => わかりますし. Essentially, it
means here "We understand X and...(can also imagine...)"

[Here](http://selftaughtjapanese.com/2014/05/04/japanese-phrase-
ender-%E3%81%97-shi/) is a page I wrote on this sometime back if you want more
examples.
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I'll also answer in English, because my Japanese isn't good enough.

My grammar reference book lists し as "a conjunction to indicate 'and' in an
emphatic way". Genki lists this particle as the particle to list reasons. For
instance:

> 今日はテニスもしたし、映画も見た  
>  I not only played tennis but also saw a movie today.

Typically, plain endings come before し, but polite endings are also
acceptable, as you showed in your sentence, so we could write:

> 今日はテニスもしましたし、映画も見ました

As for usage, we can put clauses before し. Any clause ending with a noun or
na-adjective must retain だ. The resulting component is an adverbial clause.
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