Question

Join the sentences using a suitable connector.

She is rich. She is humble.

• A. Yet
• B. But
• C. As
• D. And

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B)

The correct options are
A Yet
B But

When two sentences are contrast in meaning, an adversative conjunction is used. The given sentences are contrast 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, hence options A and B are correct. '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 does not sound correct, since being humble does not make you rich. Hence option C is incorrect. 'And' is a conjunction used merely to connect one sentence to another, and both are independent sentences which are not incomplete on their own. However, 'she is humble' is contrast in meaning to 'she is rich', hence for such sentences, we only use an adversative conjunction, and not 'and', hence option D is incorrect.