The answer is: [A]:
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"<span>combine related sentences with transitional words" .
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Choice [B]: "</span><span>begin all sentences in the same way" ; is incorrect. To the contrary, beginning all sentence in the same way is NOT recommended and would worsen sentence flow in an essay. It is recommended that one NOT begin ALL sentences in the same way but rather to vary sentences and use supporting detail.
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Choice [C]: "make sentences a similar length" ; is incorrect. To the contrary, sentence VARIETY is encouraged.
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Choice [D]: "write only complex sentences" ; is incorrect. As mentioned directly above, sentence VARIETY is encouraged. Furthermore, writing only complex sentences would like confuse or distract the reader and make it difficult to comprehend what is written.
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Choice [A]: "combine related sentences with transitional words" ; is a great way to improve sentence flow in an essay (if done correctly); and keeps the reader engaged — and helps organize the essay, as well.
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Thus, "Answer choice: [A]: "combine related sentences with transitional words" ; is clearly the best answer — and the correct answer!
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C. There is a sense of helplessness in dealing with the surrounding violence.
Explanation:
A. does not work because the author has made it clear that regardless of the precautions taken, abductions still occur.
B. The violence in Iraq is not being compared to that of neighboring countries. It is just Iraq's violence that is being focused on in the passage.
C. As with A, the author has made it clear that you can become abducted without a driver, with a driver, without bodyguards, and with bodyguards, so there is not much you can do but hope you are left alone, which is a feeling of helplessness. It can happen no matter what you do.
D. This is incorrect because it said in the passage that even with bodyguards you can be abducted.
The king and duke were merely con-men pretending to be royalty. They met in Huck's raft because they were running away from the authorities who discovered their con.
They were initially strangers but upon knowing that each was a conman. Both hatched a plan to con numerous people by staging a play like Romeo and Juliet.
