Multiple choice

Directions: Choose the correct option to complete the sentence. The federal government claims that it wants to protect socialised medicine, _______ it keeps chopping billions of dollars in transfer of payments to the provinces.

  1. Or

  2. Yet

  3. Till

  4. Until
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Yet is a coordinating conjunction used to show a contrast or contradiction. It highlights the discrepancy between the government's claim of wanting to protect medicine and its action of cutting funding. Or and until do not fit the logical flow of the sentence.

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