Words that end in<span> -ch, x, s or s-like sounds, however, </span>will<span> require an -es for the </span>plural<span>: .... But note that some inconsistency is acceptable in </span>all<span> but the most formal writing: ...</span>
I value my family and friends the most because they are the ones who are close to me!
<span>Shakespeare changed the facts to make a political or social statement.</span>
<u>Answer</u>:
The text discusses the Chinese calendar by writing, "Dragons are included along with eleven real animals” which implies that dragons are real because all the other animals on the calendar are real.
Option D is the right answer.
<u>Explanation</u>:
In the excerpt, the author starts his search based on the words of wisdom by his grandmother. Her grandmother told her that one should believe in science but one should also believe in things which wasn't proven by science. He finds the mention of dragons in almost every culture and thinks they aren’t fictional. He finds them being mentioned in stories, folklore, in the entries of Marco Polo and in the Bible.
He also observes that the Chinese calendar comprises of twelve animals, eleven out of them are real ones. So he comes to this conclusion that there is a strong possibility that dragons did exist so it is as real as the other eleven animals in the calendar.
