Answer:
Based on the excerpt, the best answer is:
1. a rise in the popularity of bicycles.
Explanation:
According to the excerpt, the rise in the popularity of bicycles helped freeing women from heavy clothes and undergarments. Since they would hinder women who wished to ride bicycles, corsets, long dresses, and bulky undergarments were quickly substituted by healthier, lighter pieces of clothing that allowed women to ride bicycles easily.
Among your options, there is only one clause, and that would be A. "she got soaked walking."
When it comes to clauses, they need to have a subject (she in A), and a verb (got soaked in A). The other options don't have both the subject and the verb and thus cannot be considered clauses. There is however another clause in this sentence (because her umbrella was in her gym locker), but it is not one of your options.
He wished to invoke pity for the Irish and to create immense dislike for the narrator, who he wrote to be an apathetic member of the upper class. Swift was motivated to present this argument because of the economic troubles and famine the Irish were facing at the time, as well as the lack of support from the British.
D is your answer it's the best one
It pretty much has the same ideas but he just changed it around a little but all the story is the same.
