You can knit a toy gnome and the difference is you can't knit a clay gnome
I think that C, that is, "they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had little or no crop it is not doubted", is your answer.
Understatement represents something as smaller or less intense than it reallly is, it presents it as less important. In sentence C, the speaker refers to a problem as a minor inconvinience "(...)trouble very great". Generarlly, we all know, that troubles are far from great. "They had little or no crop it is not doubted", you could change the focus and say that you have "some crop" instead of referring to the crop as being little.
I’m pretty sure the answer to your question is A.
This is a quote from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", and it is a made-up term. He is not a skilled surgeon, so he made up the term obstreosis (a word that does not even exist), duct is like a passage, the same way as tract. So this "disease" makes no sense and does not exist.
Answer:
to entertain readers with an anecdote about babysitting.
Explanation:
The purpose of the passage above is clearly to entertain the reader by recounting in an ingenious and witty tone an amusing anecdote about Kev´s experience babysitting. The writer is successful in his purpose since the passage is well elaborated, and with a good dose of irony, makes one, the reader, follow the anecdote empathetically but with a smile.
