(1) Ever since Lisa heard that announcement on the radio she hadn't been able to think straight: Her favorite actor of all time was going to be here. (2) Lisa lived in the smallest town imaginable. (3) There were two stop lights and one Piggly Wiggly super market. (4) No one ever came to visit. (5) Unless it was an accident and they were lost. (6) Now T.J. Harper was coming here to film his new movie. (7) Lisa was convinced shed died and gone to heaven! (8) T.J. was so . . . PERFECT! (9) He was handsome—those beautiful hazel eyes and dark brown hair. (10) And he was smart too: T.J. went to college at Yale and law school at Harvard. (11) Lisa immediately called her girlfriends. (12) They began plotting ways to get next to him.
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Which of these is the best combination of sentences from the passage?
A.
No one ever came to visit unless it was an accident and they were lost.
B.
Lisa was convinced shed died and gone to heaven; so T.J. was so . . . PERFECT!
C.
Lisa immediately called her girlfriends after they began plotting ways to get next to him.
D.
Lisa lived in the smallest town imaginable, but there were two stop lights and one Piggly Wiggly super market.
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(1) Ever since Lisa heard that announcement on the radio she hadn't been able to think straight: Her favorite actor of all time was going to be here. (2) Lisa lived in the smallest town imaginable. (3) There were two stop lights and one Piggly Wiggly super market. (4) No one ever came to visit. (5) Unless it was an accident and they were lost. (6) Now T.J. Harper was coming here to film his new movie. (7) Lisa was convinced shed died and gone to heaven! (8) T.J. was so . . . PERFECT! (9) He was handsome—those beautiful hazel eyes and dark brown hair. (10) And he was smart too: T.J. went to college at Yale and law school at Harvard. (11) Lisa immediately called her girlfriends. (12) They began plotting ways to get next to him.
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Which of these is the best combination of sentences from the passage?
 A. 
No one ever came to visit unless it was an accident and they were lost.
 B. 
Lisa was convinced shed died and gone to heaven; so T.J. was so . . . PERFECT!
 C. 
Lisa immediately called her girlfriends after they began plotting ways to get next to him.
 D. 
Lisa lived in the smallest town imaginable, but there were two stop lights and one Piggly Wiggly super market.
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SmokeyBrown · Answer

A is a good combination, since both parts of the sentence are related to and support each other.
B does not really make sense as a combination; TJ is not perfect *because* Lisa is convinced she's gone to heaven
C changes the meaning of the two sentences; in fact, Lisa and her girlfriends begin plotting after she calls them, not the other way around
D is not a good combination, since the two parts of the sentence support each other's meaning, yet they are connected with a "but"