Question

Which is the best way to rewrite the underlined portion of the passage?

Answer 1

Answer:

This time, I saw the Tupelo, Cypress, and Yaupon trees through the eyes of a man who lived his entire life along the river.

Explanation:

The first sentence is a complete simple sentence, but the second sentence is a fragment and cannot stand alone as a sentence; bringing them together forms the complete thought into a proper complex sentence.

Answer 2

Answer:

C) This time I saw the tupelo, cypress, and yaupon trees through the eyes of a man who has lived his entire life along the river.

Explanation:

The answer isn't A cause your rewriting the passage the same way as the original passage, except you changed the order the two sentences.

The answer isn't B because it doesn't make sense to add a period in the middle of the sentence.

The answer isn't D because the comma after yaupon trees acts similar to a period, which is similar to how the two sentences were like in the original passage.

The answer isn't E because the sentence itself doesn't make sense due to its wording.

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