Question

Which of the following is the most engaging text with the most varied sentence structures?The experience of the new immigrants was different.
1.)By 1890, no more free land was available, so newcomers found jobs in city factories. They lived in crowded neighborhoods, where everyone shared a common language and culture.

2.)The new immigrants had a different experience. They couldn’t find free land by 1890, so they found jobs in factories in the cities. They lived in crowded neighborhoods. They spoke the same languages, and they practiced the same traditions.

3.)The new immigrants had a different experience. The free land was gone by 1890. The new immigrants found jobs in factories in the cities. They lived in crowded neighborhoods. They spoke their own languages. They practiced their own traditions.

4.)By 1890, immigrants had a different experience. By then, the free land was gone, and immigrants found jobs in factories in the cities. In the cities, they lived in crowded neighborhoods. In the neighborhoods, they spoke their own languages and practiced their own traditions.

Answer 1

The correct answer is 1. By 1890, no more free land was available, so newcomers found jobs in city factories. They lived in crowded neighborhoods, where everyone shared a common language and culture.

This option has the most varied sentence structure. As you can see, there is inversion of word order in the sentence, there are independent and dependent sentences, short and long, so there is a certain variety that the other options seem to be lacking.