The reason Frances Willard founded..

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by sameerballani » Thu May 26, 2011 10:20 am
The reason Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union was because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poor houses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(A)The reason Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union was because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(B)Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the reason being that she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(C)The reason Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union was she believed that national prohibition of alcohol will empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States

(D)Because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States, so Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union

(E)Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union because she believed that national prohibition ofalcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails,and asylums of the United States.

Also, tell whether the following sentence is correct or not?
(F)Because she believed that national prohibition of alcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails, and asylums of the United States,Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union
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by clock60 » Thu May 26, 2011 12:16 pm
the only contenders here are D and E, but in D the usage of both Because and so. is wrong
A) reason was because.wrong. correct idiom the reason is that, also the usage of will, we need would here
B)the reason being,and again will as in A
C)the reason was she believed, to me better to say the reason was that she.. again will
D)Because .. so
left with E

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by atulmangal » Thu May 26, 2011 12:22 pm
IMO Op D has one more classic error,

COMMA + FANBOY (So) connecting a dependent clause to an Independent clause

Also, as @clock already stated, Because...so is redundant

IMO, Op F (your madeup)is correct

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