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Which option best revises the sentence to convey the same meaning using more precise language?
A long time ago, people didn't want to eat tomatoes because they grew
on a plant that looked like another plant that was bad for you.
A. A long time ago, you did not eat tomatoes because you worried
they were poisonous because they looked like another unhealthy
plant.
B. In the early 1800s, people did not eat tomatoes because tomato
plants resembled poisonous deadly nightshade plants.
c. Tomatoes were not eaten in the 1800s for the reason that people
worried it was a relative of another plant, deadly nightshade, which
would make you sick if you partook of it.
D. Tomatoes were considered bad in the 1800s because people
thought they were poisonous.

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