Answer:
It is effective, because such phrases as "Who in the world are you," "you could just have knocked me down with a feather," and "went out to Californy" show Miss Cynthia's emotions and the way she really talks.
Explanation:
According to this excerpt from "The Softening of Miss Cynthia" by Lucy Maud Montgomery, there is a dialogue between two people about someone's death and reuniting with his aunt.
The statement that best describes the dialogue in this excerpt is option C
D, as 'Gerunds' is a verb and normally ends with ing in the present tense :)
The verbs are :
There is the answer hope it helped
number 1 is the main idea
Normally the first sentence is the main idea.
A main idea contains what the whole passage is about without giving specific examples.
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