Section: Reasoning Through Language Arts B

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¹ Housing is the hub of the family’s private world, the nature of housing has a direct effect on the quality of family life. ² It effects the health, time, and energy required to rear a family and care for its members, self-related attitudes, morale, and satisfaction with one’s station in life. ³ It also affects the way in which one family relates to another, to the neighborhood, and to the community.

⁴ Families do not want, expect, or require dwellings that is identical. ⁵ Families with limited means are more interested in securing clean, sale, and reasonably comfortable housing than to find quarters that are especially psychologically stimulating. ⁶ At the same time many families having greater incomes can take basic shelter for granted and proceed to satisfy higher level needs in housing.

⁷ Nevertheless, as a nation we are being more and more concerned with housing that does far more than support physical survival. ⁸ In other words, essentially all American families are upgrading their housing goats and expectations, ⁹ And the dominant housing image remains the single-family house.

¹⁰ Only when families are more articulate in identifying their needs and when builders and public policy become more sensitive to human needs will the nation have a variety of good housing designed, built, and serviced in line with family purposes.

Sentence 1: Housing is the hub of the family’s private world, the nature of housing has a direct effect on the quality of family life.

Which of the following is the best way to write the underlined portion of this sentence? If you think the original is the best way, choose option (1).

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Explanation

The period and capital are necessary to avoid a run-on sentence.