First of all, I’d highly recommend using good transition words. Transitions will always make you sound more professional. So, the transitions I use are “additionally”, “moreover”, “nevertheless”, “though”, “to demonstrate”, “peripherally”, and for conclusions I use “to conclude”, “in conclusion”. I’m
The correct answer is b. plays.
This is because plays agrees with the singular subject that is child. Play would require different subject.
I'd say Tiny Tim, because he's poor and ill, so he just wants to be nice to everyone he sees. Marley was almost as selfish as Scrooge.
It is both a declarative sentence, it is a statement, and a compound sentence, it has more than one independent clause.