Read this sentence from "Charles." ..my sweet-voiced nursery-school tot replaced by a long-trousered, swaggering character who f
orgot to stop at the corner and wave goodbye to me. What does the word swaggering convey about Laurie's character? O He is trying to look and act older as a means of asserting his independence. O He is acting silly and goofy to make his friends laugh as he walks to school. O He is trying to imitate his father. O He is acting like a bully toward the children he is walking to school with.
The meaning which the word swaggering convey about Laurie's character is:
<u>A. He is trying to look and act older as a means of asserting his independence</u>
According to the given sentence, we can see that the speaker talks about the little boy who she had known but all of a sudden cannot recognize.
As a result of this, we can see that the speaker talks about not being able to recognize the boy who used to be sweet-voiced but is now swaggering which shows that while the boy has grown, he is trying to act older.
