Munsey's Magazine assessed the impact of the wheel on women in a special bicycle-themed issue. "If she has ridden her bicycle in
to new fields, becoming in the process a new creature, it has been gradually and unconsciously," the editors wrote. "She did not have to be born again in some mysterious fashion, becoming a strange creature, a 'new woman.' She is more like the 'eternal feminine,' who has taken on wings, and who is using them with an ever increasing delight in her power." Indeed, many bicycle companies at home and abroad did put wings on the women in their advertisements, emphasizing that they had taken flight. —Wheels of Change, Sue Macy What conclusion can be drawn about the way people viewed the “new woman,” based on the details about advertising?
a) Many believed that women intentionally tried to take on new personalities and traits.
b) Many believed the only way to make women cyclists feminine was to show them with wings.
c) Many believed that the bicycle made the new woman both feminine and more free.
d) Many believed that advertising to women was the only way to grow the economy.
A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence, but a dependent clause even though it has a subject and a verb cannot stand alone.
