Question

Join the sentences using a suitable connector-
(There can be more than one answer to this question)
She is rich. She is humble.
a. Yet
b. But
c. As
d. And

Answer 1

Hint: Words that connect two different sentences or phrases. You can also use them to connect paragraphs to give them coherence.

Complete answer:
Sentence connectors are used to link ideas from one sentence to the next and to give paragraph coherence. Sentence connectors perform different functions and are placed at the beginning of a sentence. When two sentences are contrasting in meaning, an adversative conjunction is used. The given sentences are contrasting in meaning, because “rich” and “humble” are qualities that are hard to find in the same person, hence we use an adversative conjunction, like “yet” or “but”. They both mean “though” or “still”, and are interchangeable.
Let us examine all the given examples to find out the correct answer:

Option ‘a’ is Yet, as explained above, fits in the given sentence the best, and is the correct answer.

Option ‘b’ is But, as explained above, is also the correct answer as it perfectly fits in the given sentence, as a conjunction.

Option ‘c’ is As, is a conjunction used when a clause or a sentence (she is humble) is the cause of the previous clause or sentence (she is rich). If “as” is used here, it would mean that “because she is humble, she is rich”, which is not correct, since being humble does not make you rich.

Option ‘d’ is And, a conjunction merely used to connect one sentence to another, and both are independent sentences which are not incomplete on their own. Hence, this option is also incorrect.
Now, we know that the two correct options are option ‘a' and ‘b’, yet and but.

Note: Connectors are used to introduce, contrast, order, sequence ideas, theory, etc.