Read the sentence from paragraph 3: Or, rather, it was almost empty, there was a single pouch of energy drink
sitting on a shelf in the back.
What is the most effective way to combine these clauses?
Or, rather, it was almost empty since there was a single pouch of
energy drink sitting on a shelf in the back.
It was almost empty, so there was a single pouch of energy drink
sitting on a shelf in the back.
Because there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf
in the back, it was almost empty.
Or rather, there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf
in the back although it was almost empty.

Because there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf in the back, it was almost empty.

Explanation:

The correct answer is option C because it combines the clauses effectively by using parallelism to balance the clauses in the sentence.

Here, the reason is first given, before the state of the shelf is stated.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”

answer: i am not sure but i think you should go for c

explanation: