They laughed at his wild excess of speech, of feeling, and of gesture. They were silent before the maniac fury of his sprees, wh
ich occurred almost punctually every two months, and lasted two or three days. They picked him foul and witless from the cobbles, and brought him home . . . . And always they handled him with tender care, feeling something strange and proud and glorious lost in [him]. . . . He was a stranger to them: no one—not even Eliza—ever called him by his first name. He was—and remained thereafter—"Mister" Gant. . . . Based on this excerpt, what can be inferred about Oliver’s neighbors?
Based on this excerpt, and with no options, we can infer that Oliver's neighbors are <em>loving and caring people.</em>
Explanation:
According to these lines, Oliver's neighbors took care of him and laughed at his loud and crazy sprees that occurred him every two months. They "<em>picked him foul and witless from the cobbles, and brought him home</em>", this means they were tender to him and loved him. They treated him kindly and respected his ways.
If you accept either C or D as the correct revision then you have to accept both of them. Hence the best way to treat the sentence is to ignore both of them.
B is not correct either. You can over punctuate.
That leaves A.
Sometimes the right answer to many things is to do nothing. My dad used to say "Don't fix what isn't broke."
