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Twice voted most popular baby name in the Neanderthal community.

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How would you correct the following underlined portion from the passage? Does it need correcting?

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We know that the writer had to look up information because he or she wasn't familiar with the cat-bathing process.

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Choice (A) is incorrect because the use of the word "although" sets up a contrast

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instead of a causality.

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"Although" indicates that something happened

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in spite of something else.

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Choice (C) is incorrect for the same reason. Like "although," the word "while"

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sets up a contrast. It would be correct if the sentence were something more like, "While

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I didn't know anything about kitty-bathing, I took a shot at it anyway," but that's

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not the case here.

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(D) makes the same mistake as its predecessors. The phrase "regardless of the fact" indicates

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a contrast as well. We might say, "Regardless of the fact that I love you, I can't marry

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you because of that thing on your face."

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But then we'd be jerks.

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This leaves us with choice (B), the correct answer. The word "since" is used to show

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when one thing is caused by another. Boom. There's the causality we've been looking for.

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Seems like this causality came close to causing a casualty.

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