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[vivek.kapoor83]

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.
(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 of
alcohol would empty the poorhouses, jails,
and asylums of the United States

[Jatinder]

IMO E

Reason...because is redundant ...eliminate A
being is almost always wrong....B gone
The reason.... was she believed ...unidiomatic C gone
Because.....So.... unidomatic...D gone

[Bidisha800]

(E)

[sam98034]

A is wrong because you don't have a "The reason... was because..." in English, only "The reason....was that..."

B is wrong because you need a would, not will

C should say "was [that] she believed"

D wrong use of so

E process of elimination

[raunekk]

one more for E