Okay, well to start with, a thesis statement needs to summarize your essay, it is basically the main idea of your paper. With that said, what aspects of online and classroom learning will you be compare/contrasting? Summarize those topics into a sentence and you will have your thesis statement!
Answer:
D)
Explanation:
Reconsidering accepted ideas about the history of business relations.
According to the text, business relations have upgraded from confident / cooperative communities to the business transactions based on credit (individual profits or solvency) ,... "but neither could be achieved without the trust and direct cooperation of one’s neighbours."
"As a result, buying and selling, far from breaking up communities, actually created numerous bonds that held villages together."
Narrowing your topic. The last one
Answer 4 cannot be it right off the bat, since compound-compound doesn't exist.
If a compound - complex sentence loses the dependent clause, it is no longer complex, since complex sentences require a dependent and to independent clauses conjoined with a comma and conjunction such as "and". So answer 3 can not be it.
So that leaves either simple or compound.
The sentence is still contains an independent clause from when it was compound-complex, therefore answer 2, compound, is the answer.