Answer:
A. To follow an introductory element.
Explanation:
The answer cannot be option B., because there is <em>no conjunction</em> after the comma is placed. The answer cannot be C., because if the comma were to interupt, the sentence would not, in fact, be grammatically correct (in context). And finally the answer cannot be D., because there is <em>no list of words and/or description</em>, after the comma. This leaves us only with option A., which is the correct answer because: after the comma is placed within the sentence, directly after it are adjective, that introduce and describe the values of her dress, which in this case would act as the direct object.
By using the context, we can determine that the meaning of the word "futile" in "Marigolds" is "fruitless" or "pointless".
- "Marigolds" is a short story by Eugenia W. Collier (born in 1928 in Baltimore). This is where the word "futile" appears in the story:
<em>"I suppose that </em><em>futile </em><em>waiting was the sorrowful background music of our impoverished little community when I was young."</em>
- What the narrator, Lizabeth, means is that is was pointless<u> to wait for things to get better, for poverty to just disappear.</u>
- The context and setting of the story is the <u>Great Depression</u>. Lizabeth and her family live in a very <u>poor neighborhood</u>, and things are only getting worse due to the <u>awful economic situation</u> of the country.
- Thus, waiting seemed futile, fruitless, pointless. Nothing was going to change.
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The Pilgrims were mentally prepared to bear and overcome any trouble that might come to them in the harsh environment, as they believed those were temptations that God lays on them. When faced with a disease and hunger during the first winter, they didn't despair. The only seven people who didn't get sick took over all the work.
<span>This is a phrase by Bernard Shaw, Act 3 of Pygmalion.
He is describing how ill-natured sober men can be, and how their wives make them drunk in order to make them happy and to "make them fit to live with."</span>
