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Read the excerpt from My Story.
More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people.
How is this excerpt structured?
cause and effect
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Cause and effect.
The sentence uses "because" to give the cause (whites could afford cars) and the effect (more of us rode the buses). The next sentence describes the resulting consequence—humiliation from having to ride segregated buses regularly.
The sentence uses "because" to give the cause (whites could afford cars) and the effect (more of us rode the buses). The next sentence describes the resulting consequence—humiliation from having to ride segregated buses regularly.
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