Answer:
D. The deer was not able to pick up the scent of the author.
Explanation:
The whole sentence reads
"The wind must have been right, because he kept on browsing the mossy ground." The deer kept on browsing the mossy ground because it did not pick up the scent of the man. Otherwise, it would have run away.
He can’t make sense of it.
explanation:
an old saying is something like “can’t figure out heads from tails” basically meaning that that are confused or ‘can’t make sense of it’
A noun phrase denoting a person or thing that is the recipient of the action of a transitive verb, for example the dog in Jimmy fed the dog.
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