Question

General Washington could not rely on Henry Knox to supply regular reports about the yellow fever epidemic. He _____ wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott, in an attempt to get an update on the situation in Philadelphia.

Choose the correct transition word.

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Answer 1

The best transition word to use in this context is "therefore."

The completed sentence would read: "General Washington could not rely on Henry Knox to supply regular reports about the yellow fever epidemic. He therefore wrote to the comptroller of the treasury, Oliver Wolcott, in an attempt to get an update on the situation in Philadelphia."

This implies that because he could not rely on Knox for reports, he took the action of writing to Wolcott as a logical consequence.