Answer:
"His aim was to free himself more and more from those unpleasantness and to give them a semblance of harmlessness and propriety."
Explanation:
He literally says his aim was to free himself. If this is incorrect, the answer is the sentence right after it. Hope this helps.
It is true that semantics (a branch of language dealing with the meaning of words) considers both the connotation (the feelings a word evokes in you) and the denotation (the actual meaning of the word) of words.
Hi! The sentence you gave is a complex sentence. For a sentence to be compound, it should contain multiple subjects or predicate. On the other hand, for it to be complex, a subordinate clause must be present.
We can notice that the clause "that were built under the city" is a clause that cannot stand alone thus this will tell us that the sentence is complex.
ANSWER: D. Complex