A cause-and-effect text focuses on why things happen. A is a word that helps you see the relationships between ideas.

A signal word helps readers recognize how ideas are connected. In cause-and-effect writing, words such as “because,” “so,” and “therefore” show why something happened or what resulted, so “signal word” is correct. “Structure” refers to how information is organized, not to a word that signals a relationship.

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