C) so then. saying that shows that the effect is about to show
<span>D. past perfect
</span><span><span>Danielle had practiced her song many times before last week’s recital.
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HAD practiced
</span><span>The tense of the underlined verb in the sentence: We had just begun to practice the skit when the fire alarm rang is past perfect. Notice the conditioning word “when” which dictates the sentence to be in the past perfect state in its action verb. Hence, “had” is added next to the past participle of the sentence. For example, the boy had played when suddenly his mom came. </span>
Correct answer for apex is:
“The Doctor in a clean starch’d band, / His golden snuff box in his hand,”
The description that would improve the setting in the passage above best is "Eating dinner one chilly evening, my master and I...". Because it will set the mood of the retelling of his master's story.
