Which revision would best improve the underlined part of this quotation from paragraph 10? a) ‘nothing is as striking as the grand sight before one when your eyes meet the overland train that slows…’ b) ‘seldom does a sight more grand and more striking meet a person’s eyes, as when he sees the overland train slowing…’ c) ‘a sight more grand stands out seldomly more before one as striking as the one that meets your eyes when the overland train slows…’ d) ‘a sight more grand, seldom stands out before a person who is as striking as that, meets his/her eyes with the overland train which slows…’

Even though you do not provide the underlined part of the quotation from paragraph 10, the answer to this question is quite easy to pinpoint due to advanced knowledge of the English language.

The best sentence is the one which offers a syntactic inversion, because it is the one that produces a more emphatic result. And being that the main purpose of inversions, it seems quite an obvious pick.

So, the final answer for this question is:

B) ‘seldom does a sight more grand and more striking meet a person’s eyes, as when he sees the Overland train slowing…’

This sentence provides more emphasis as well as a better and clearer grammatical construction.

to eliminate ambiguous remote or broad reference it is necessary to focus on anaphoric reference. by definition "anaphoric reference means that a word in a text refers back to other ideas in the text for its meaning." the references should be clear and leave no room for ambiguity.

in the first case the pronoun it probably refers to the car but it has not been mentioned before so we should replace it for the car. in doing so the statement becomes clear.

in sentence number   two   the pronoun he refers to charles dickens the author. yet, the first half of the sentence is about the book a tale of two cities. to repair this it would be better to rephrase the first half : after i read   a tale of two cities by dickens, he so as to remove the remote reference.

a. by showing how a character reacts to or interacts with his or her   surroundings

explanation:

the setting reveal information about a character by showing how a character reacts to or interacts with his or her   surroundings.