The correct answer is letter b.
The excerpt is written in the Simple Past and narrates a series of events that happened in a sequence.
Notice the verbs in the Simple Past : wept, wailed, fell, faded and died.
There is a verb missing in the part " the earth stiff and cold" The verb is grow, the Simple Past form is grew, therefore " the earth grew stiff and cold" is the correct way.
Letter A is wrong because there's a verb missing.
Letter C and letter D " the earth was growing stiff and cold" the verb grow is in the Past Continuos, " the leaves were falling from the sorrowing trees" the verb fall is also in the Past Continous breaking the pattern stablished.
Answer:
I'm fine brotato chip, how are thou friend?
<em>✽ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~Hello There!~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ✽</em>
<em>➷ The hard tests (comes/</em><em><u>come</u></em><em>)at the end of the fall.</em>
<em>If the tests didn't have an " s " at the end of it, it would've been comes.</em>
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<em>➶ Hope This Helps You!</em>
<em>➶ Good Luck (:</em>
<em>➶ Have A Great Day ^-^</em>
<em>↬ May ♡</em>
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