The correct answer is D. Cannot stand as a sentence.
Subordinate clauses convey no meaning when left alone and must always be used in combination with independent clauses so as to create a complex sentence that conveys meaning.
You did not provide the excerpt but I wound it and the correct answers are the following two sentences:
1.<span>For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
Here we see that they do possess a kind of intelligence, maybe at first strange and unclear but it is there, no matter how strange it might seem.
2.</span><span>I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
Here the Time Traveler has found his Time Machine and he finds that the Morlocks had tried to grasp its function and its purpose. They have taken it apart and then cleaned and oiled it, which suggests they know somethings about how the machine work.
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Answer:
Because it involved many nations.
Explanation:
It was called the Great War because the world has never seen a conflict of that size. Over 59 million troops were mobilized. Many millions of people died or get injured. The conflict reshaped politically, economically, socially, and culturally Europe and the whole world.
It was named like that because the people of those days did not believe that almost 30 years after that the world would be at the most disastrous conflict of its history.
I hoped this answer helps you.
The correct answer is A. In that time, it was important to know where a person's family was from.
Family name has always been important in history. It is still important nowadays, but many might disagree with that.