If the underlined word were replaced with the word "typed,"
the tone of the excerpt would be
LA be
Read the excerpt from The Dark Game: True Spy Stories
from Invisible Ink to CIA Moles.
One week later, news of the Zimmermann telegram was
splashed across the front page of American newspapers.
On April 6, 1917, the Congress of the United States declared
war on Germany and its allies.
more judgmental.
more optimistic.
less intellectual.
less dramatic

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

dependent clause!

example: "before the food gets cold"

the answer would be b.