True or False? If $A \subset B \subset C \subset M$, where $A$ and $C$ are connected, then $B$ is connected.

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True or False? If $A \subset B \subset C \subset M$, where $A$ and $C$ are connected, then $B$ is connected.

I think it is false, but I can't think of a counter example.

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Take $A=(0,1), C=(0,2), B=(0,1) \cup \{1.5\}$

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Pick any non-connected set $B$. Can you think of a connected subset of $B$? A connected superset of $B$?