Question

FAN AND MEDAL

Answer 1

2. Closely read this sentence from line 12 of this passage:

“But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano, could not pluck up the courage to go to the ‘Mansion of Bliss,’ as Meg called it.

In this sentence, “yearning” most clearly means
a. Reaching
b. Desiring
c. Pushing
d. Worrying

Answer 2

How did you come up with this answer choice?

Answer 3

@carsonce

Answer 4

B if you reread the sentence with each word only b makes sense (she wanted a piano).

Answer 5

^ correct

Answer 6

but they also want to know how you found the answer

Answer 7

B. Because when she quotes “But Beth, though yearning for the grand piano" she wants to play and has a great feeling that she want to use a grand piano she she is desiring for it.
Desiring means when someone strongly wishes for or wants something. ;)

Answer 8

okay thanks

Answer 9

:D no problem