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During the mid-twentieth century, geologist Marie Tharp worked to map the ocean floor using sonar data. Her detailed maps eventually revealed a massive, continuous rift valley running down the center of the Mid-Atlantic [1] Ridge. Consequently, her male colleagues dismissed her findings, mockingly attributing the rift to a mathematical error in her data.

Question 1
Which of the following choices best replaces the underlined portion marked [1] to establish a logical and grammatically correct transition between the two sentences?

  1. A
    Ridge. Consequently, her
  2. Ridge. Nevertheless, herCevap
  3. C
    Ridge, nevertheless, her
  4. D
    Ridge. Moreover, her

Cevap

Ridge. Nevertheless, her
The correct option successfully uses 'Nevertheless' to indicate the logical contrast between the discovery of the rift valley and the colleagues' dismissal of it. By using a period to end the first sentence and placing the transition at the beginning of the next sentence, it maintains correct grammar and avoids a comma splice.

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1
Analyze the logical relationship between the sentence before the transition and the sentence after the transition.
The first sentence describes Marie Tharp's major scientific breakthrough of discovering a rift valley. The second sentence describes how her colleagues rejected this finding as an error. This shows a direct contrast between the significance of the work and its reception.
Transitions must logically connect the ideas of adjacent sentences.
2
Evaluate the transition choices to find the one that expresses contrast.
'Consequently' indicates cause-and-effect, and 'Moreover' indicates addition, so they are incorrect. 'Nevertheless' indicates contrast, which fits the meaning perfectly.
Only a contrastive transition makes sense of the colleagues' negative reaction to a successful mapping project.
3
Verify the punctuation required to join these two independent clauses.
Since both parts of the text are independent clauses, they must be separated by a period or semicolon. Using a comma before 'nevertheless' results in a comma splice, so the version with a period is correct.
Conjunctive adverbs like 'nevertheless' cannot be used to join two independent clauses with just a comma.

Anahtar Kavram

Identifying logical transition words between sentences and applying proper punctuation rules for conjunctive adverbs.
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Sentence-Level Transitions

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