Question

Which sentence in paragraph 3 should begin a new paragraph? a.20 c.23 b.22 d.25(20) According to the Web site John Henry—The Steel Driving Man, the railroad was to run through Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia and was such a huge project that it took a thousand men three years to complete. (21) While driving steel through Big Bend, John Henry was challenged by the owner of a pneumatic drill, a new invention at that time. (22) Some believe that John Henry died of exhaustion or from a stroke after the contest (Hempel, Procopio, Shaver, and Novak). (23) By the time the songs were first record

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in 1909, several versions had developed. (24) Each has a different focus that reveals something about the people who enjoyed it. (25) In one, Henry’s heroism comes from being an African American who dared to test his strength against a machine run by a white man (Hempel, Procopio, Shaver, and Novak).