The correct answer is pun.
Here, a play on the word "mean" is used. Mean is both a method ("no sudden method of death") and a way to describe something embarrassing or painful.
Answer 4 cannot be it right off the bat, since compound-compound doesn't exist.
If a compound - complex sentence loses the dependent clause, it is no longer complex, since complex sentences require a dependent and to independent clauses conjoined with a comma and conjunction such as "and". So answer 3 can not be it.
So that leaves either simple or compound.
The sentence is still contains an independent clause from when it was compound-complex, therefore answer 2, compound, is the answer.
Option D is the most neutral one.
Answer:
<u>She's surrounded by a large family.</u>
The answer to the question stated above is <span>an unknown antecedent.</span>
Weak reference:
when a pronoun refers to an antecedent that has been suggested but not expressed
Indefinite reference:
the use of a pronoun that refers to no particular person or thing and which is not necessary to the meaning and structure of a sentence
