If you take out "his saddle", the sentence does not make sense. Taking out "for the wagon", the sentence will still make sense. If you can take out the word(s) that the verb is applying to (what is Robert doing, he's polishing his saddle), and if the sentence does not make sense, then it is a transitive verb.

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Elias combined his own background knowledge with details from a text. Then, he drew a conclusion that the lead character was bra

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Answer:

Option D

Explanation:

This is the case of indirect characterization. In case of indirect characterization, a person is described on the basis of heir thoughts, actions, speech, and dialogue. Here, being brave is a kind of behavioral aspect of the person described in the paragraph. However, Direct characterization is the description of physical stature, work, passions etc.

Hence, option D is correct

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