Craft and StructureMediumFunction of a qualifying sentence
Craft and Structure practice question
The parish records go back to 1538, the year such records were first required. They are not complete: the pages for 1640 to 1660 are missing, torn out, the story goes, by a churchwarden who did not want the names of the war years to be read.
Which choice best describes the function of the second sentence?
- A. It qualifies the first sentence by noting a gap in the records and its rumoured cause.Correct
- B. It argues that the records are worthless.
- C. It praises the churchwarden.
- D. It restates the first sentence.
Answer: A. It qualifies the first sentence by noting a gap in the records and its rumoured cause.
'They are not complete', and why.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. It argues that the records are worthless.
- A gap, not worthlessness.
- C. It praises the churchwarden.
- The churchwarden is not praised.
- D. It restates the first sentence.
- It qualifies.
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