<span>A.
Half the students were failing the course near the end of the school year.
The sentence is written in passive voice because the course is the subject of the sentence and was being failed is the main verb phrase. The course can't fail. The students are the ones who are failing so to change it you must make the students the subject of the sentence. A is the only option that makes the students the subject.
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What contributed to the creation of a variety of characters were the trips Chaucer made between France, Italy, and England as a government official, as shown in option A.
<h3>Who was Chaucer?</h3>
- He was one of the most important medieval writers.
- He was the author of The Canterbury Tales.
- He was the father of English literature.
Chaucer was very easy to create characters very different from each other and with a lot of personalities. This talent was influenced by the number of people he met during his travels. These trips happened frequently, as Chaucer was a diplomat and traveled to France, Italy, and England on business.
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