Question

read the passage from an argumentative essay. (1) its no wonder students grades drop when they enter high school. (2) they are suffering various effects of sleep deprivation. (3) they cannot focus, they fall asleep in class, and they often forget what they have read or heard. (4) they may even hallucinate. how should sentence 3 be revised to clarify relationships among ideas? by connecting it to sentence 2 with \so\ by connecting it to sentence 4 with \and\ by adding \in addition\ to the beginning of the sentence by adding \specifically\ to the beginning of the sentence

Explanation:

Sentence 2 states students suffer sleep deprivation effects, and sentence 3 lists specific examples of those effects. "Specifically" signals that the following content is a detailed breakdown of the prior general statement, clarifying that sentence 3 is elaborating on sentence 2's claim. Other options are incorrect: "so" would imply a cause-effect reverse of the actual relationship, "and" would incorrectly link it to the separate, more extreme effect in sentence 4, and "In addition" would frame it as a new, unrelated point rather than a specific example.

Answer:

by adding "Specifically" to the beginning of the sentence