The transition word in the passage that indicates a comparison and contrast text structure is "But." This word is often used to signal a shift or contrast between two ideas.
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"Day We Discovered Cause of "White Death""
by Dr. Howard Markel
Never a commanding lecturer, Koch had a thin, reedy voice and tended to interject his phrases with an annoying amount of “ums” and “ers.” But on March 24, 1882, when he presented his findings at a monthly meeting of the Physiological society of Berlin, he did so with clarity and elegant logic.
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Use the excerpt from “The Day We Discovered the Cause of the 'White Death'”, which describes a physician in the late 1800s, to answer the question.
Which transition word in the passage indicates a comparison and contrast text structure?
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But
But
clarity
clarity
Never
Never
when
when
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