D) To restate the thesis and summarize the final point.
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Answer:
Before the rain; the clouds turned dark gray.
Explanation:
For it to be properly worded<em>, </em>it would be <em>" Before the rain, the clouds turned dark gray " </em><em>or </em><em>" The clouds turned dark gray </em><em>before </em><em>the rain ". </em>
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<em>the other answer explains it a bit clearer, showing to remove the " ; "</em>
The effect of the plague that the narrator in “The Decameron” describes as “even worse, and almost incredible” as he tries to convey the horror of that time period is: Parents refused to care for their dying children.
Fathers and mothers refused to assist and care for their own children, it was as if their children did not belong to them.
