Sentence 34: Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions. Level 49. Plants grow old as surely as do animals. However, a generally accepted definition of age in plants has not yet been realized.
Knowledge of adverb clauses
=> Plants become old as surely as plants age. However, a widely accepted definition of senescence in plants has yet to be found.
* Consider the answers:
A. It is wrong to use the conjunction “and” to connect two clauses that have similar meanings and complement each other.
B. Right. Because “although + clause, clause: although……but…….”to describe two clauses that are contrasting.
C. It is wrong to use the conjunction “so” to connect two clauses that have a cause-effect relationship.
D. It is wrong to use the conjunction “for” to connect two sentences with cause and effect. “For” here means “because”.
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