C. The book's story was pretty exciting, even though its cover was not.
The apostrophe rule we are looking for here is the possessive rule for the apostrophe. Because only one book is being talked about, we’ll need the singular possessive form, which is book’s. The rule of adding an apostrophe has, however, an exception. For the pronoun “it,” an apostrophe “s” indicates the contraction of “it is.” As such, to make it possessive, only an “s” is added (without an apostrophe) as in its.
B I pretended to believe it, though I knew very well/What he was doing
C And out of respect for my own character/I refused to be drawn into a divorce
D By the scheme of a husband who had merely grown tired/Of his marital vow and duty.
The epitaph of Mrs. Purkapile is part of Edgar Lee Masters' "Spoon River Anthology". It was published in 1915. This is a sequence of 245 free-verse epitaphs that are presented in the form of monologues. They are written from the point of view of deceased citizens of a small town.
The correct answer is option C: "And out of respect for my own character / I refused to be drawn into a divorce." These lines directly state the reason that Mrs. Purkapile had for staying married.
Subtract. 8 ½ - 2 2/3 = 6 1/36 1/65 1/65 5/6
(ii) Knowing what the lecture was about, she didn't attend the meeting.
A. infinitive
B. relative pronoun
C. compound predicate
D. phrase