Question

Read the sentence from paragraph 3:

Or, rather, it was almost empty, there was a single pouch of energy drink
sitting on a shelf in the back.
What is the most effective way to combine these clauses?
Or, rather, it was almost empty since there was a single pouch of
energy drink sitting on a shelf in the back.
It was almost empty, so there was a single pouch of energy drink
sitting on a shelf in the back.
Because there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf
in the back, it was almost empty.
Or rather, there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf
in the back although it was almost empty.

Answer 1

Because there was a single pouch of energy drink sitting on a shelf in the back, it was almost empty.

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer is option C because it combines the clauses effectively by using parallelism to balance the clauses in the sentence.

Here, the reason is first given, before the state of the shelf is stated.