Salarino and Solanio, two Venetian merchants, notice their friend Antonio has been out of sorts lately. Antonio has sent several ships abroad to trade goods in many ports, so his friends speculate that he has overextended his fortunes in shaky investments.
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The first option of "friction and air resistance being the reason for him to slow down
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The coordinating conjunction is "yet"
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