Instructions: 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.
Input: Sentence 1:But these reconstructions differed so much from each other that not a single verse of Matthew was present in all of them . Sentence 2:As a result , interest in Q subsided and it was neglected for many decades .
Output:
as a result