The transition which could replace the word thus in this sentence is definitely consequently.
Workers bravely set dangerous explosives in the mountains by hand to make passes for railroads, and consequently hundreds lost their lives.
The definition of time as something that passes and is centred in the now is contained implicitly in the use of the tenses ... Clocks do not measure the passage of time but translate temporal intervals into spatial structures.
Are you looking at diagrams on you work sheet ?
Because then we won't get credits and we would have to take the same classes again until we pass them
To identify the central idea of the text readers must - Engage while reading so that they comprehend what the writer is trying to communicate!
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