Choose the correct option to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so.
Tanya is extremely polite. We like her.
Topic: Synthesis — clause of reason
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Pick an option and check your answer. The full worked answer is below either way.
Answer
(d) We like Tanya because she is extremely polite..
The natural relationship between the two sentences is CAUSE AND EFFECT — she is polite, and that is why we like her — so BECAUSE is the right conjunction.
Options (a) and (b) both turn it into a CONTRAST ("but", "despite"), which implies that being polite is a reason NOT to like her. That reverses the sense entirely.
Option (c) is grammatically sound and keeps the meaning, but it is clumsy and changes the structure more than necessary. When two options both work, choose the one that alters the original least.
THE PRINCIPLE for every synthesis question: identify the relationship between the two sentences first — time, reason, contrast, condition — and the conjunction follows.
We like Tanya because she is extremely polite..