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GED grammar practice: transition words

Question 2 of 36Transitions

This draft has parts that need fixing. Go to each menu that says Select... and choose the option that is correct in formal standard English.

Email: Earlier start for morning routes

To: All delivery drivers
From: Dana Ruiz, Route Supervisor
Subject: Earlier start for morning routes

Starting next Monday, morning delivery routes will begin at 6:30 instead of 7:00. Over the past two months, traffic on the main roads has grown much heavier after 7:00. Drivers have been stuck in long lines of slow cars, and many deliveries have arrived late. more customers have called our office to ask where their orders are.

Leaving earlier should help us get ahead of the heaviest traffic. Please plan to arrive at the loading dock by 6:15 so that your van can be loaded before you leave. Coffee and breakfast bars will be set out in the break room each morning.

Afternoon routes will keep their usual times, and most drivers should still be back by 2:30.

If the new start time causes a problem for you, such as child care or a second job, please talk to me before Friday. We will try to work out a schedule that fits your needs. Thank you for your patience while we make this change.

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Read the sentence before the menu and the sentence the menu starts. Before you look at the choices, say in your own words how the two ideas connect. Does the second idea go against the first, give an example of it, follow from it, or take its place? Then choose the linking words that signal that exact connection, and reread both sentences with your choice in place.

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