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Transitions between sentences and paragraphs, where a sentence belongs, and whether an opening or closing sentence does its job.

Answer each question, then read why the right answer is right and why the tempting one is wrong.

Question 1

English
[1] The weaving workshop begins with raw wool straight from the shearing barn. [2] Students then card the fibers until every strand lies parallel. [3] Finally, each student spins the prepared wool into a continuous thread. [4] Before any carding can happen, though, the wool must be washed to remove its lanolin.

For the sake of the logic and cohesion of the paragraph, Sentence 4 should be placed:

Question 2

English
[2] Delphine Arceneaux has kept the night shift for nine years. Between eleven and six she raises the bridge on request, logs each lift, and monitors a channel that is rarely busy. On a slow night there are two lifts. On a night in May, when the sailboats move north, there can be eleven.

Given that all the choices are accurate, which one most effectively completes the contrast with the preceding sentence?

Question 3

English
The Shop on Delaney Street
 
[1] The sign in the window said FREE REPAIRS, WEDNESDAYS, and under it, in smaller letters, someone had written BRING YOUR OWN PATIENCE, the shop was a converted garage with four repair stands, a wall of salvaged wheels, and a coffee can of hex keys that everybody borrowed from and nobody refilled.
 
[2] I came the first Wednesday in June because my rear derailleur had stopped shifting into the two smallest cogs. A volunteer named Ruthie looked at the bike for four seconds and handed me a screwdriver. "The limit screw," she said, and walked away. I stood there for a while. Eventually I found the screw, turned it the wrong way, made the problem worse, and turned it back.
 
[3] That was the method. Nobody at the shop fixed your bicycle for you; they showed you where to look and then left you alone with it. It was maddening for about three weeks. Then something shifted — not the derailleur, which took longer, but the way I approached a machine that was not working.
 
[4] By August I could true a wheel, a process which involves tightening and loosening thirty-six spokes in a sequence until the rim runs straight within a millimeter. The trick is to make smaller adjustments than you think you need. Ruthie let me true my first wheel for a stranger in September, standing behind me the whole time and saying nothing, which I understood by then was the highest form of praise the shop offered.
 
[5] The shop closed in 2019 when the building sold. I have a repair stand in my own basement now, and a coffee can of hex keys that I refill religiously and without fail. What I do not have is anyone standing behind me saying nothing, and I have come to think that this was the part that mattered.

For the sake of logic and cohesion, the sentence "It was maddening for about three weeks." would best be placed:

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