Read this excerpt from a student’s expository essay about an historical event. which transition would fit best in the blank in order to make the relationship between the cause and effect clear?

needed to determine the cause of the fire, they compared the burned-out remains of apollo 204 with command module 014, a sister ship.

since

until

as soon as

if

The correct answer is A. Since

Explanation:

In writing, transitions are words or even phrases that connect different ideas in texts and establish relationships between them. Because of this, transitions are of many types depending on the type of relationship they establish, this includes transitions of addition, sequence, contrast, emphasis, consequence or effect, etc. In the case of transitions of cause and effect which are the type of transitions the sentence presented requires, this includes the words because, as, due to, since that express cause and the words so, therefore, thus, as a consequence that describe effects.

This implies in the case of the sentence "NASA needed to determine the cause of the fire, they compared the burned-out remains of Apollo 204 with Command Module 014, a sister ship" from the options provided the one that is "Since" because this is one of the transitions that expresse causes and therefore it is correct to use it to explain the steps Nasa took because they neede to find the cause of the fire.

in the short story the slip-over sweater by jesse stuart, the main character and narrator shan is friends with grace, an intelligent girl he has known since childhood and with whom he used to be in love.

at the beginning of the story, shan believes he’s no longer in love with grace, but loves jo-anne instead. in order to buy a slip-over sweater and have jo-anne wear it so that the other students would know she loved him too, shan takes a loan at the bank.

while jo-anne is wearing shan’s sweater, his friend grace starts to wear another popular boy’s one, roy’s sweater. because of that, the other students begin to pay attention to grace and compliment her perseverance and effort. they admire her for walking 5 miles to school every day, despite the weather, and still getting the best grades. shan, who knows all of that for a fact, says, as the narrator, ‘and i knew she had the durability and the toughness of a storm-battered mountain oak.’ he compares his friend’s strength – not only physical, but also of character – to an oak tree, whose wood is known for being sturdy.

as the story goes on, shan changes his behavior out of concern for the debt he has to pay at the bank. his new girlfriend jo-anne never asks him what is wrong nor offers any sort of . instead, she breaks up with shan for not being as fun as she thought he was supposed to be. grace, however, not only asks about shan’s problem, but him make the money he needs. shan can’t but notice how different the girls are and what a wonderful person grace is.   even though he used to find jo-anne prettier at the beginning of the story, he now says, ‘grace was as beautiful as our mountain was in april, prettier than a blossom of wild phlox or a mountain daisy.’ his comparing grace to a mountain or something that exists on a mountain (such as a mountain oak or daisy) certainly has important meaning since shan loves the mountain and everything about it and he knows the mountain thoroughly. shan also loves and knows grace as completely as he does the mountain.