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In January 2009, as the school was closing for winter holiday she wrote: "The girls were not too excited about vacations because they knew if the Taliban implemented their edict [banning girls' education] they would not be able to come to school again.
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Answer: 2. "Thunder is good," said Mark Twain, "but it is lightning that does the work."
Explanation: the correct answer is the second option because first, it has a comma before and after "said Mark Twain", which is correct because when we use quotation marks and we want to add information (like who said it) between two phrases, we need to put it between two commas. The other that makes this option correct is that "but" doesn't begin with a capital letter, this is correct because it is a continuation of the first quote, it shouldn't begin in a capital letter.
I am not sure, because i am not super familiar with imagists, but i think i could be A. From what I gathered, imagists were a group of people who liked clear, sharp language that created a pristine image, so ordinary language seems like it would not appeal to them that much.
