This question is missing the options. I've found the complete question online. It is the following:
Complete the sentence with an appropriate intensive pronouns.
Diana found the story difficult to believe______________.
A. she
B. itself
C. herself
Answer:
Diana found the story difficult to believe herself.
Explanation:
<u>Intensive pronouns are used to emphasize the nouns they refer to.</u> We need to be careful because intensive pronouns and reflexive pronouns are actually the same - myself, yourself, himself, etc. It is the use in context that differs.
In the sentence we are supposed to complete, we need to choose the appropriate intensive pronoun among the options. <u>Since "she" is a subject pronoun, we can already eliminate it. If we use "itself", we will be emphasizing "story". However, the person who has difficulty believing the story is Diana. She is the one who should be emphasized. Therefore, we can eliminate "itself" and safely choose "herself".</u>
Diana found the story difficult to believe herself.
According to the passage mentioned, the phrase that does not show Irving's bias against the Great Plains is:
"has not been inaptly termed 'the great American Desert'".
<u>Explanation:</u>
Irving Washington talks about the massiveness and the daunting Great Plains.
He expresses its harshness to survive in it, and the monotony o the views it holds for acres and acres.
With all this, he does not shy away from calling it or linking it to America, calling it the great American desert.
This shows he agrees to the fact that it is indeed an American desert that holds massive plain grasslands and harsh conditions of survival.
Hindsight is saying looking from the back.... so pretty much its the same thing
