Answer: period, question mark, exclamation point, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, brackets, braces, parentheses, apostrophe, quotation mark, and ellipsis
The study of the origin of words and how their meanings have changed throughout history
Answer:
It establishes a cause and effect relationship with the first sentence..
Explanation:
My best guess is cause and effect because since the first sentence serves as a cause, the word "as a result" indicates the effect caused by the first sentence where students are taking longer to earn a bachelor's degree,
