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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense

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In a list titled “Elegant Things” from Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book, the author delights in a violet waistcoat, wisteria blossoms, and a child eating strawberries. Such lists, observed sharply yet simply by Shōnagon, who served as a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi in the tenth century, __________ the daily minutiae of Japanese courtly life.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A

reveals

B

was revealing

C

to reveal

D

reveal