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To ban loans and embargo munitions would have been to give realistic expression to the isolation that the people and their President believed they enjoyed. But it would have closed off the wealth of unlimited orders, and Americans did not wish to suffer for their neutrality. Rather they hoped to make a good thing of it. With these two economic measures taken before the war was three months old, the fact, if not the illusion, of isolation was dead. —"How We Entered World War I," Barbara Tuchman Based on the paragraph, what is the primary structure used by the author?

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The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Based on the paragraph, the primary structure used by the author is cause and effect.

This is an excerpt from the essay called "How We Entered World War I," written by Barbara Tuchman in April 1967. That year, the United States remembered the 50th aniversary of its participation in WorldWar 1.

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) was an American journalist that in 1943 worked in the US Office of War Information and wrote a book in 1960 called "The Guns of August," about the beginning of World War 1. She won the Pulitzer Prize with that book.