I'd choose this dialogue to revise your sentence:
<span>“Did you hear?” I asked them. “My painting got selected! Exciting, right?” I smiled. “Especially given that I felt so incompetent at the beginning and that the competition was ruthless!”
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It feels like the option that best uses the dialogue to improve this sentence, because the other options are either too informal or just the same sentence as the original one.
If you mean tone, then the tone is going to be quite saddening or angering seeing as how the lottery is talking about a lottery of death.
Answer: A and d
Explanation: just got it right
Are is the answer because sit means more than 1
spending all their money to buy a new one because they lost it, and they end up finding out the original was fake. they go broke