Answer:
The statement that best describes this excerpt is It contains sentences with varied structures.
Explanation:
The question is not complete since it does not provide the options to answer it, here are the options:
It contains sentences with varied structures.
It contains sentences with similar structures.
It contains mostly run-on sentences.
It contains fused sentences and comma splices.
This excerpt from The Crisis, Number II, by Thomas Paine has a series of different kinds of sentences, even including some of the other options given, but saying that it has varied structures is more accurate since this will cover any kind of structure that is presented in these lines, as there are more structures that the options that are possible to answer.
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I'm pretty sure short but not a hundred percent sure
The answer is are because its a verb that is stating something.