The answer is that the person was slowly beginning to understand the English language. The context clues are that because the person was able to slowly turn newspaper accounts into stories, and was able to chat and gossip with her other friends. She was also "helped...by her husband."
Answer:
It separates the subject from the predicate.
Subjective mood is used to express wishes, desires, and doubts and unknown or factual situations.
For this question you would tick off the first and last box.
Hope that helps. -UF aka Nadia
I would say the first option is the best answer, because the invention of the printing press made it so that books were easier made, and therefore cheaper, which spread more information to the people
