Question

The best location for this clause is

A) exactly where it is.
B) to be deleted from the sentence.
C) at the beginning of the sentence.
D) after the phrase “So when she was.”

Answer 1

from "The Secret Garden"
Frances Hodgson Burnett

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite manor to live 1with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She 2had a little thin face, and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another.

Her father had held a position under the English Government and 3was busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, 4but, when Mary was born, she handed her over to the care of an Ayah 4who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby, 5she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing, she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servant’s, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. 6Many British subjects were often ill during their time in India.

7The young English, governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and, when other governesses came to 8try to fill it, she always went away in a shorter time than the first one. 9If Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.

4 One frightfully hot morning, 10when she was about nine years old she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crosser still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her Ayah. 9‘Why did you come?’ she said to the strange woman? "I will not let you stay. Send my Ayah to me.’ 11She looked frightened, but she only stammered that the Ayah could not come, and, when Mary through herself into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only more 12frighteningly scared and repeated that it was not possible for the Ayah to come to Missie Sahib.

13 Nothing was done in its regular order, and several of the native servants seemed missing while those whom Mary saw slunk or hurried about with ashy and scared faces. But no one would tell her anything, and her Ayah did not come. She was actually left alone as the morning went on, and at last she wandered out into the garden, 14and began to play by herself under a tree near the veranda. She pretended that she was 15making a flower-bed, and she stuck big scarlet hibiscus blossoms into little heaps of earth, all the time growing more and more angry and muttering to herself the things she would say and the names she would call Saidie when she returned.

Answer 2

I KNEW IT @.@

Answer 3

What do you think?

Answer 4

I THINK IT IS C

Answer 5

I think it's the first choice. o:

Answer 6

Which sentence? o:

Answer 7

Her father had held a position under the English Government and 3was busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people.

Choose the best revision, if one is needed.

A) NO CHANGE
B) always
C) had been busy
D) had always been busy

Answer 8

What do you think?

Answer 9

B