Definition: 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:Most of England 's traditional ruling classes regarded the Rump as an illegal government made up of regicides and upstarts . Sentence 2:However , they were also aware that the Rump might be all that stood in the way of an outright military dictatorship .
Output:
however