Question

read the paragraph, which is a summary of a slave narrative by olaudah equiano.
1 robert king was a quaker merchant and a kind man, and he treated equiano well. 2 he used equiano to work at a number of jobs for him, yet he also hired him out to other merchants. 3 a certain boat captain of king’s, thomas farmer, often traveled between the west indies and north america, so he needed equiano’s services. 4 because equiano had sea - going experience, he could be quite useful to farmer.
which sentence in the paragraph is structured differently than the others?
○ sentence 1
○ sentence 2
○ sentence 3
○ sentence 4

Explanation:

Sentences 1, 2, and 3 are compound sentences, joined by coordinating conjunctions ("and", "yet", "so") to connect two independent clauses. Sentence 4 is a complex sentence: it uses the subordinating conjunction "Because" to link a dependent clause ("Because Equiano had sea-going experience") to an independent clause ("he could be quite useful to Farmer"), which gives it a different structure from the others.

Answer:

sentence 4