So far have I been from any care to grace my pages with modern decorations, that I have studiously endeavoured to collect examples and authorities from the writers before the restoration, whose works I regard as the wells of English undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine diction. –Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson Based on the passage, what made Johnson’s dictionary innovative? It was the first dictionary to try to restore English to its early form. It was the first dictionary to use modern page decorations. It was the first dictionary to trace word usage by using quotations from authoritative writers. It was the first dictionary to try to correct the writing of past authors.

To the north of ginnungagap it was bitterly cold. (20) nothing was there but fields of snow and mountains made of ice. to the south of ginnungagap was a region where frost and snow were never seen. it was always bright, and was the home of light and heat. the sunshine from the south melted the ice mountains of the north so that they toppled over and fell into ginnungagap. there may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. if you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. if there is no mistake, choose ‘correct as is.' a) correct as is. b) nothing was there but snow fields and mountains of ice. c) nothing was there but fields of snow and icey mountains. d) nothing was there but fields of snow and mountains of ice.