In my opinion, use the word and. This would mean that he knows Mark is an excellent cook because he goes there every Friday.
If you used a word like because, this shows favoritism. If you use so, for, or but, it doesn't make sense.
At the most basic level, the active voice emphasizes the person or agent who performs an action, in short, the “actor.” The passive voice emphasizes the recipient of the action or sometimes the action itself.
I would love to answer! I can't see the excerpt though.
D. Because a simple sentence has just one independent clause.
The producer was a woman
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