Answer:
D. acknowledge the potentially embarrassing circumstances under which she is delivering her speech
Explanation:
Most of the students at Wellesley College did not want Barbara Bush to speak because they believed that she was only famous because of her husband (president at the time). A majority of the students wanted Alice Walker to give a speech instead, however this did not occur. Bush is trying to use comedic relief in this line to lighten the mood surrounding her speech.
He spends Christmas all alone
I believe it is a claim because it does focus on the main idea and what the text/passage should be about. If not I deeply apologize.
The sentence that is incorrectly punctuated is option B.
"Help me shovel the driveway please?"
The correct punctuation here is: "Help me shovel the driveway, please.
This is a request, so we use a comma before the word "please", that is used to make the request polite, not a demand or an order. The period is used at the end because the person is not making a question, but making a request.
C, because "butterfly chaser" seems to point to his opinions on nature.
