Question

Which excerpt is an example of an hourglass?

A. Banning plastic bags, the activists say, will redirect funds to infrastructure and spur entrepreneurial efforts to come up with alternatives to plastic.

B. Plastic bags are one of the most common items in everyday life. And they are at the heart of a fight raging in municipalities worldwide.

C. Many cities around the globe have already banned the ubiquitous bags from stores, and activists are pushing for bans elsewhere.

D. They argue that cities must spend vast sums to clean up the bags and the damages caused by them, money that’s better spent elsewhere.

Answer 1

Option A is an example of an hourglass sentence structure.

Step-by-step explanation:

Option A, “Banning plastic bags, the activists say, will redirect funds to infrastructure and spur entrepreneurial efforts to come up with alternatives to plastic,” is an example of an hourglass. An hourglass is a sentence structure that begins with a dependent clause, followed by a free-standing independent clause, and ends with another dependent clause. In this excerpt, the opening dependent clause “Banning plastic bags” sets up the main idea, the independent clause “the activists say, will redirect funds to infrastructure and spur entrepreneurial efforts to come up with alternatives to plastic,” and the closing dependent clause “is an example of an hourglass.”