<span>C. She lives on the twentieth floor of an old apartment building somewhere in Manhattan.
This option is accurate since it contains articles and modifiers that are grammatically correct:
i) "the" is used before the word "twentieth" (a noun modified by ordering- i.e. first, second, third, and so on...)
ii) "an" is used before the word "old" (which begins with a vowel)
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Answer:
A. deferential
Explanation:
<em>He was an important dignitary and was, thus, given </em><u><em>deferential </em></u><em>treatment.</em>
option a. best completes the sentence. to be deferential is to be respectful. so this would mean, the "important dignitary" was treated with respect.

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