Question

Which pair of sentences would be most appropriate to combine using a conjunction? Question 17 options: Grandpa says he was an average student. Grandma is a golfer. The totem pole was carved from wood. Let's go to the Pacific Northwest. Billy likes to play computer games for hours. Last year he turned 12. My mother is very tall. My father is even taller.

Answer 1

My mother is very tall My father is even taller because "but" is the conjuction

Answer 2

The answer is:  

My mother is very tall but my father is even taller.

Conjunctions join clauses, words and phrases and they are usually used to avoid a sequence of short sentences. For example, and, but, and or.

In this case, the most suitable sentences to combine with a conjunction like "but" are the ones whose subjects are related (mother and father) and whose predicates have a similar structure: both describe height and one has a comparative form of the adjective tall, so they can be easily joined.