Q: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Sentence 1:Debt Like Compensation - If an executive is compensated exclusively with equity , he will take risks to benefit shareholders at the expense of debtholders . Sentence 2:Thus , there are several proposals to compensate executives with debt as well as equity , to mitigate their risk - shifting tendencies .
A:
thus