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If the subject consists of two or more words that are connected by and, the subject is plural and requires a plural verb.
Answer:
d) the run-on sentence stretching from line to line helps achieve a suspenseful tone.
Explanation:
The use of diction and syntax in the Comprehension passage in consideration shows that the run-on sentence that stretches from line to line actually helps to achieve a suspenseful tone.
As the reader reads the speaker's speech in the passage, there is a kind of suspenseful tone that is seen. This makes the reader want to know more and keen to follow through with the speaker's ordeal in the prison.
"Who Understands Me but Me" is the passage that reveals a man's ordeal in prison.
