Grade 12 · Reading & language

Connect sentence structure with its effect

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Although the team could not remove every uncertainty, it chose to begin the repair.

How does the placement of although shape the relationship?

It frames the lack of certainty as a concession before asserting the decision to act.
It claims the team did not act.
It makes acting the cause of having complete certainty.
It states that certainty and action are identical.

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It frames the lack of certainty as a concession before asserting the decision to act.

The dependent although clause acknowledges an obstacle; the main clause gives the action that still occurred.

A little hint: Compare the actual clause arrangement with a plausible alternative; explain an effect supported by wording and context.

Compare the actual clause arrangement with a plausible alternative; explain an effect supported by wording and context.