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deidrenicoleg:

Which transition could replace the word thus in this sentence? Workers bravely set dangerous explosives in the mountains by hand to make passes for railroads, and thus hundreds lost their lives. Yet Besides Extremely Consequently

darkknight:

What do you think?

deidrenicoleg:

Consequently or Yet*

darkknight:

well yes it is. It won't be extremely because it doesn't fit in the sentence. Yet would be used wrong in the sentence Consequently would work because The sentence introduces something and then tells about an effect of it. Which would make consequently used correctly.

darkknight:

Yet wouldn't work because we have to find a word that replaces thus, consequently works best. Yet would change the meaning of the sentence.

deidrenicoleg:

got it, thanks

darkknight:

np

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