Cause and effect relationships are an essential element of many academic texts. Understanding these relationships will help you to answer reading questions and also help you to write academic essays in which you have to give causes and effects.
Cause and effect are often presented in the same sentence. Either the cause or the effect can be at the beginning of the sentence so you have to look for clues in the vocabulary which the writer uses. These clues help you to understand the text effectively.
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1. | The Importance of land surveying led to advances in . |
2. | Advances in mathematics resulted in better building techniques for buildings. |
3. | It also allowed for the pharaoh’s scribes to calculate how much was held in his granaries. |
4. | This allowed for an assessment of how many people could be in times of need. |
5. | An impressive result of these advances was the construction of the which required the use of many skills. |
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