The correct answer is B. It used literary excerpts to illustrate word usage.
Johnson used excerpts from well known books to show how different words are used which was a completely new idea, revolutionary one, since the previous dictionaries showed what the word mean and were sometimes difficult to understand.
Because back then they believe that if they didn't see it then it is not there or created for example when the french believe that the earth is flat but we know now that it is round.
In
the sentence: At first they wouldn't admit to the deed, but later they said,
"The ones who did it are ___________."
The
personal pronoun best completes the sentence is letter b: ‘us’ and it is used as
‘subject’.
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Pronouns
are utilized as substitutes for a noun. In order for it to substitute, it must
have a clear antecedent. Personal pronouns are used to substitute nouns with
ownership. There are three persons point of view.1st person is when
the subject is the one who is speaking (e.g. I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours). 2nd person is
when the subject is the one being spoken to (you, your, yours). 3rd person is when the subject is
the one spoken about (he, him, his,
she, her, hers, it, its, they, their, theirs).
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I know the he visited the proctors in Act 2 so I would say. B
