This phrase is in reference to how Atticus dealt with Mayella on the stand during Tom Robinson's trial. Mayella testified that Tom Robinson raped her and beat her up. During his questioning, Atticus found holes in Mayella's story. He got her confused and made her sound as though she wasn't sure about the details or that she wasn't as strong of a person as she'd like to be. This made it difficult for Mayella to twist the truth to make Tom Robinson seem guilty so she stopped talking. She gave some testimony and then quit answering questions all together. Unfortunately, even though Atticus's questioning of Mayella revealed some significant inconsistencies and improbabilities the jury still convicted Tom Robinson because of his race.
That sounds really demanding. You know, a lot of responsibilities.
C is the correct on for this problem
A) (Sentence 2) The freighter Florentine, 320 miles northeast of the Hawaiian Island of Hilo was lumbering along at about 15 knots when a garbled message came in over the radio.
This is the sentence that has a missing necessary comma. Another comma should have been placed after the word Hilo and before was.
The commas in this sentence enclosed nonessential information.
<span>The freighter Florentine, 320 miles northeast of the Hawaiian Island of Hilo, was lumbering along at about 15 knots when a garbled message came in over the radio.
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Nonessential information means that if the said phrase is deleted from the sentence, then the sentence would still convey the same message.
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The freighter Florentine was lumbering along at about 15 knots when a garbled message came in over the radio.</span>
