Thwart: To oppose or prevent.
To thwart any outsiders from intruding, I built this wall made of broken bottles.
Buffy realized if the news of the scandal got out it would thwart her chances of becoming the president.
The correct answer would be : B) An important part of my life has been the people who stood by me.
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Answer:
C. Ashley asked, "Do we have homework tonight?"
Explanation:
If you start by telling who said it, use a comma and then the first quotation mark.
Punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks if it is a direct quote. If you use an exclamation point of a question mark, do not use a comma.
Dialogue begins with a capitalized word, no matter where in the sentence it begins.
https://www.time4writing.com/writing-resources/proper-punctuation-for-quotes/
The statement "The inhabitants of the United States have...properly speaking, no literature." is inaccurate. Literature may work through grammar syntax and semantics but there is no existing standards that would make a piece of work qualify as literature. There is only different levels and complexity but no absolute requirement.
