Answer:
Explanation:
The stranger had only pretended to be interested in Elisa talking about her chrysanthemums, in order to get some business from her and to make her more compliant for a sale.
Answer is D Why does the speaker put "cruelties" in quotation marks? because it describes the alleged cruelties
An antecedent is the word replaced by a pronoun. For example:
The child loved eating; it ate 5 bowls of food a day.
The antecedent for 'it' is 'child'.
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