I'd choose this dialogue to revise your sentence:
<span>“Did you hear?” I asked them. “My painting got selected! Exciting, right?” I smiled. “Especially given that I felt so incompetent at the beginning and that the competition was ruthless!”
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It feels like the option that best uses the dialogue to improve this sentence, because the other options are either too informal or just the same sentence as the original one.
Answer based on your own feelings. No one can answer for you.
That the people are stealing.
Answer:
Explanation:
a) Hurrah!
b) Too bad!
c) Oddly enough!
d) Holy Falsehoods Batman!
e) Phew!
