The correct answer is <span>D. </span><span>he accidentally kicked the paint can over. In the sentence given above, the most appropriate verb tense to use is past because the first tense used is past participle which indicates that the action was done already. All the other choices will make the sentence grammatically incorrect.</span>
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I would say that the example of satire among these options is d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Twain is criticizing and mocking the English for settling everything in such a trivial manner as betting.
