Answer:
A
Explanation:
C and d don't make sense.
B could be many things like 'that' or 'said' or 'in the words of'. Looks like reported speech but not just for ''that'',
A - would be a short phrase and the direct speech.
In the words of Oscar Wilde, ''This wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. Either it goes or I do.''
Foot! The plural form of foot will become 'feet'. :)
The language system is semantics. "Coke" v.s "Sprite." are two different words, so we are focusing on a word. When Anna paused, she was confused because to Melinda, A Coke means a Sprite in her vocabulary. She wanted to confirm the same meaning. Semantics involves a changing meaning depending on the person. She is visiting from Alabama, so the meanings may have chosen just like dialects. Thus, it cannot be phonology/morphology, syntax, or pragmatics.