It’s just ‘is’ because ‘are’ is mainly used for plural
Answer:
in the jilting of granny Weatherall Cornelia is Granny Weatherall's daughter
An adjective clause starts with a pronoun such as who, whom, that, or which or an adverb such as when, where and why.
So with that the adjective clause is "that was launched last April"<span>
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<span>a. “A total of 820,151 legal induced abortions were reported in 2005, the abortion ratio (number of abortions per 1,000 live births) was 233, and the abortion rate was 15 per 1,000 women aged 15--44 years.” - (www.cdc.gov)
This use of statistics is the most effective because it presents the information clearly and accurately, and cites a well known, credible source.</span>
I think her main purpose was to entertain judgeing by the context of the story!