Clarify connections that you want to stress in your writing.

Transitions clarify connections that you want to stress in your writing.

Explanation:

Transitions are words that create a connection between ideas, transitions help the writer to convey a full message since the information becomes coherent and cohesive, and has a natural flow as they use transition words, some examples of transition words are another key point, indeed, in fact, first thing to remember, on the negative side, on the positive side.

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the answer is a)   a sentence of death costs the state "almost three times as much as a sentence of life in prison" (delon 147)