Analogies are revealing test questions causing the reader to hypothesize the relationship<span> between the example words and then finding the best match for that </span>analogy<span>. Common types of analogies used on standardized tests with examples: Opposites or antonyms. Synonyms or words with identical or similar meetings.</span>
The states benefited each other with defense, goods and trading
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, <em>and, but, </em>and <em>or</em>.
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.