Answer: Change "mortifying" to "mortified"
Explanation:
Here is the complete question:
Read the sentence.
Abashed by the harsh criticism, the mortifying writer decided to rewrite the beginning of the book.
What is the best way to revise the sentence?
A. Change "Abashed" to "Abashing"
B. Change "mortifying" to "mortified"
C. Change "to rewrite" to "rewriting"
D. Change "beginning" to "began"
From the question, we can see that the use of tenses are incorrect. The use of "mortifying" is wrong, the past tense of mortify which is " mortified" is the right word to use.
When the -ing form is used as noun, it modifies the verb, but in this case, the past tense should have been used.
B. They said to others to convince you that b was right
<h2>A</h2><h2>The author presents empirical evidence, then uses logical evidence to highlight the connection between the data and the claim.</h2><h2>.</h2><h2>.</h2><h2>.</h2><h3>You're welcome</h3>
Answer:
Whenever the author uses the word <em>American </em>with quotation marks, it is to ridicule the Americanized people who started believing they are truly American and decided to leave behind their heritage and history. The author, Anzia Yezierska, talks about how she finally moved to America in order to pursue her dreams, happiness, and financial stability, and started living with and working for a family from the same Polish village she comes from. The family completely forgot about where they come from and pretended they were truly American, or rather "American" as Yezierska would put it.
Through this usage, we can see how quickly the author's thoughts and feelings about the "land of freedom" changed. She moved there in order to earn her own money and finally be happy. However, what she encountered was loneliness, misunderstanding, shame, hatred, inadequacy, etc. which she wasn't hoping for. Therefore, her feelings about America shifted from childish exhilaration towards sad acceptance and ultimately hatred.
