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Question:
- Have you ever felt envious of another person's situation and how that person views the world?
- The speaker of Billy Collins's poem "Christmas Sparrow" feels envious, not of another person, but of a sparrow. (
- Through vivid imagery, Collins suggests a connection among the speaker, sparrows, and what it feels like to be free.
- At the beginning of the poem, the speaker says that a sparrow is trapped inside the house.
Which choice improves sentence 4 by adding an adverbial clause?
OPTIONS:
A. The speaker says that a sparrow is trapped inside the house and can't get out, at the beginning of the poem.
B. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker says that a frightened and unhappy sparrow is trapped inside the house.
C. As the poem opens, the speaker says that a sparrow is trapped inside the house.
D. The speaker says as the poem opens that a sparrow is trapped inside the house, hiding from the cat
Answer:
The correct answer is D)
Explanation:
The adverbial clause that was added is "hiding from the cat."
The clause above qualified as an adverbial clause because it is dependent and qualifies the verb trapped.
Trapped, is the past tense of Trap.
Adverbial clauses also qualify or modify adjectives or other adverbs. They also modify or qualify a word group helping to express a connection in respect of time, circumstance, place, manner, degree, etc.
For more details about adverbial clauses, please see the following link:
https://brainly.com/question/19376777
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