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C)The social backround of the characters or author
The sentence “Abstain from all appearance of evil” is an imperative statement. These types of sentences usually do not have a subject and their structures consist mainly on the bare verb alone. The main purpose of an imperative statement is to give commands. So, in this sentence, there is no subject and it is commanding somebody to abstain from doing something.
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1) Although he and Alexander Hamilton worked together on the Federalists Papers is the dependent clause