Ever since Central City Airport petitioned the council to build a new runway, calls to my office have increased more than 75 percent. The vast majority of my constituents do not support the airport's expansion. _____, they expressed concerns about noise pollution, traffic gridlock, and danger to the migratory habitat near the proposed runway.
D. Rather
Answer:
The transition word that best connects the ideas in the paragraph is letter D. rather.
Explanation:
The speaker in this paragraph explains that he has been receiving more calls in his office due to the petition to build a new runway by an airport. He proceeds to explain that the vast majority of the people are against the runway. The way he says it, people "do not support the airport's expansion". Instead of supporting it, they express their concerns.
Ever since Central City Airport petitioned the council to build a new runway, calls to my office have increased more than 75 percent. The vast majority of my constituents do not support the airport's expansion. Rather, they expressed concerns about noise pollution, traffic gridlock, and danger to the migratory habitat near the proposed runway.
He is mentioning what people are doing. They are doing this instead of doing that. The transitional word that best expresses that idea is rather. Nonetheless and yet would be appropriate if he were mentioning that, despite not supporting the expansion, people see the advantages. Lastly would appropriate if the speaker had been listing items or events in a sequence. At no point did he do that (there is not a "firstly" for there to be a "lastly").
