Quiz: Cohesion across sentences

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Sentence 1: Cotton manufacturers invested in the new industrial looms, and Britain’s handloom weavers were put out of work almost overnight.

The economy was able to absorb weavers deprived of their livelihoods only gradually at best.

Weavers found themselves deprived of their livelihoods in an economy able to absorb them only gradually at best.

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Sentence 1: Britain’s commitment to private property undermined the old guild system

Under the guild system, master craftsmen determined who could enter each trade, the prices of the goods they made, and the number of products they could turn out.

Master craftsmen determined who could enter each trade, the prices of the goods they made, and the number of products they could turn out under the guild system.

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Sentence 1: The railroad's effect on Britain’s economy and way of life is incalculable.

The ability of trains to move finished products with unprecedented speed and efficiency dramatically lowered product prices.

Product prices were dramatically lowered by the ability of trains to move finished products with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

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Sentence 1: Unlike the cotton industry, every ingredient of iron production came from within Britain itself.

All the proceeds of iron making accrued, therefore, to British industrialists and entrepreneurs

British industrialists and entrepreneurs, therefore, received all the proceeds of iron making.

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Sentence 1: In the 1840s, British legislation restricted women's workday in the textile mills to ten hours and banned them from the mines altogether.

The harsh working conditions the reformers observed were the immediate impetus of this legislation.

The immediate impetus of this legislation was the harsh working conditions the reformers observed.

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Sentence 1: British tariffs on French wine, imposed in 1713, shifted demand to local brewers and whisky makers.

Unlike the French and Italians, whose preferred alcoholic beverage was wine, Britain became a nation of beer- and scotch-drinkers.

Britain became a nation of beer- and scotch-drinkers, unlike the French and Italians, whose preferred alcoholic beverage was wine.

Quiz: Cohesion across sentences

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