He left the island as a child. He never returned. His early years on the island gave him a life-long love of the sea. Which is the best way to combine the sentences so the meaning is clear to the reader?

1. He left the island and never returned as a child. His early years there gave him a life-long love of the sea.

2. Though he never returned and left the island as a child, his early years gave him a life-long love of the sea.

3. His early years on the island gave him a life-long love of the sea and he left there as a child, never to return.

4. Though he left the island as a child and never returned, his early years there gave him a life-long love of the sea.

Read the excerpt from loom and spindle. but in a short time the prejudice against factory labor wore away, and the lowell mills became filled with blooming and energetic new england women. . they soon began to associate with those who formed the community in which they had come to live, and were invited to their houses. they went to the same church, and sometimes married into some of the best families. or if they returned to their secluded homes again, instead of being looked down upon as "factory girls" by the squire's or the lawyer's family, they were more often welcomed as coming from the metropolis, bringing new fashions, new books, and new ideas with them. what inference can be drawn about the time period of the excerpt? a. the changing workforce transformed society’s rules. b. factories improved local economies with new products. c. women with factory experience found other jobs easily. d. married women preferred factory work to homemaking.