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To present an opposing view of a claim
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The second choice is a fragment, not a complete sentence.
I believe the correct choice is number one, because if you turn the sentence around, it answers the question of why the crowd is gathered. You may want to confirm on the website chompchomp.com (Grammar Bites).
William Somerset Maugham was the one who said, "The novel is a picture of real life and manners, and of the time in which it was written".
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D. a regularly repeated line or group of lines:
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