Hi,
Each of the following is a step for beginning a persuasive essay except, being prepared to read essay out loud so, the answer is C.
Answer: N. Scott Momaday - who is a native American himself - finds ironic that white people claimed that they were arriving into the "new world" when in reality there were ancient civilizations already living on those lands, and this claim is one that they have continued to sustain up to this day.
When Europeans arrived in 1492, there were very large Indian populations scattered all across America with a rich history and culture, an element that vastly defers the logic of the discovery of a "new world".
Complex because a complex sentence has 1+ fragments of a sentence, and 1+ complete ideas
B would make the prose more difficult to read and thus interrupt the natural rhythm
Answer:
Infinitives as adjectives examples
Adjectives and participial adjectives followed by infinitives
amazed * delighted lucky
anxious determined motivated
ashamed eager pleased
astonished * fortunate prepared
careful glad proud