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The following is adapted from the novel Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1892. The tall, blackcity and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk, made a new world for me.after the moorland braes,the sea-sands and the still country-sides that I had frequented up to then. The throng of the citizens in particular abashed me.Rankeillor's son was short and small in the girth; his clothes scarce held on me; and it was plain I was ill qualified to strut in the front of a bank -porter.It was plain, if I did so,should but set folk laughing and (what was worse in my case) set them asking questions, So that I behooved to come by some clothes of my own, and in the meanwhile to walk by the porter's side, and put my hand on his arm as though we were a pair of friends. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? Elimination Tool Select one answer A Itsuzzests th that the narrator has forgotten how to interactwith people. B i It hints at the specific errand the narrator is planning to embs barkupon. C Ithighlights : character trait of the narrator in fearing what others may think. D ) Itemphasize: the reason that the narrator is worried ed about his clothes.

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The following is adapted from the novel Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1892.
The tall, blackcity and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk, made a new world for me.after the moorland braes,the
sea-sands and the still country-sides that I had frequented up to then. The throng of the citizens in particular abashed me.Rankeillor's son
was short and small in the girth; his clothes scarce held on me; and it was plain I was ill qualified to strut in the front of a bank -porter.It
was plain, if I did so,should but set folk laughing and (what was worse in my case) set them asking questions, So that I behooved to come
by some clothes of my own, and in the meanwhile to walk by the porter's side, and put my hand on his arm as though we were a pair of
friends.
Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole?
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Select one answer
A Itsuzzests th that the narrator has forgotten how to interactwith people.
B i It hints at the specific errand the narrator is planning to embs barkupon.
C Ithighlights : character trait of the narrator in fearing what others may think.
D ) Itemphasize: the reason that the narrator is worried ed about his clothes.

The following is adapted from the novel Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson published in 1892. The tall, blackcity and the numbers and movement and noise of so many folk, made a new world for me.after the moorland braes,the sea-sands and the still country-sides that I had frequented up to then. The throng of the citizens in particular abashed me.Rankeillor's son was short and small in the girth; his clothes scarce held on me; and it was plain I was ill qualified to strut in the front of a bank -porter.It was plain, if I did so,should but set folk laughing and (what was worse in my case) set them asking questions, So that I behooved to come by some clothes of my own, and in the meanwhile to walk by the porter's side, and put my hand on his arm as though we were a pair of friends. Which choice best describes the function of the underlined sentence in the text as a whole? Elimination Tool Select one answer A Itsuzzests th that the narrator has forgotten how to interactwith people. B i It hints at the specific errand the narrator is planning to embs barkupon. C Ithighlights : character trait of the narrator in fearing what others may think. D ) Itemphasize: the reason that the narrator is worried ed about his clothes.

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C. It highlights a character trait of the narrator in fearing what others may think.
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