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Hi @Harper-Anderson, Thanks for the question! I assume you’re talking about answer choice (B). Reading it carefully, we see that it reads “if there are only reasonable people, there cannot be progress.” In other words, the conditional logic word here is still “if,” it doesn’t matter that “only” happens to appear after it. “Only” matters when we see things like “Only if” X or “only people” who X, and although we see that syntactically, it’s within the logic of a “if only reasonable people, then there cannot be progress.” In other words Only reasonable people —> Cannot be progress Because we can see here that we’re not saying anything about the reasonable people themselves. We’re saying something about a world in which there are only reasonable people. Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

can you please re type the answer to this? This is what your answer explanation reads: I assume you’re talking about answer choice (B). Reading it carefully, we see that it reads “if there are only reasonable people, there cannot be progress.” In other words, the conditional logic word here is still “if,” it doesn’t matter that “only” happens to appear after it. “Only” matters when we see things like “Only if” X or “only people” who X, and although we see that syntactically, it’s within the logic of a “if only reasonable people, then there cannot be progress.” In other words Also, is the a rule for when keywords that signify different conditions come after each other? Is there a rule that says that if two keywords are in the same sentence and one represents a N.C and the other represents a S.F, that you pick the first word that appears. For example, in option B- "If the only reasonable.." If (represents S.C) and the only (represents N.C) show up in the same sentence, but we use the S.C. Is there a rule that says to always use the first word? How do I know which condition to use when two keywords are in a sentence so closely?