The sentence in which the word <em>but </em>is used as a preposition is the last one - D. We discovered that Candy will do anything but work.
Here, the word <em>but </em>can be replaced with another preposition - except.
In all of the other sentences, but is used as a conjunction.
I would say that the sentence which is an example of indirect characterization is the following one:
<span>"Tom's wife was a tall termagant, fierce of temper, loud of tongue, and strong of arm."
</span>The reason why I chose this sentence is because of the word <em>termagant, </em>meaning a violent, overbearing, turbulent, brawling, quarrelsome woman.
"A. The ancestor of the dog." is a fragment. When in doubt, say the sentence out loud and ask yourself if there is enough information for the sentence to make sense.
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Modernism is a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s. Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century.
