The correct answer is B. It used literary excerpts to illustrate word usage.
Johnson used excerpts from well known books to show how different words are used which was a completely new idea, revolutionary one, since the previous dictionaries showed what the word mean and were sometimes difficult to understand.
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If I am correct then the blank should be filled in with " climate front atmosphere" Not sure if this is correct but, hope this helped! :)
The answer would be.. “broke down” in tears
Although there are no conjunctions in this sentence, I guess that the adverb where can be used as a "subordinating conjunction" in the sentence, because it connects the subordinate and the independent clauses.