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Volcano1985 Posted 17 years ago
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Originally, the sonnet was an Italian poetical form

Originally, the sonnet was an Italian poetical form which attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and ---- it was natural, ---- not essential for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it.

a. hence / if
b. while / though
c. since / however
d. furthermore / rather than
e. already / even

I think D, you?
  

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Hi, Originally, the sonnet was an Italian poetical form which attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and -- it was natural, -- not essential for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it. a. hence / if b.

— Clive

  • Hi, Originally, the sonnet was an Italian poetical form which attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and -- it was natural, -- not essential for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it.
  • a.
  • hence / if b.
  • while / though c.
  • since / however d.
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Hi,

Originally, the sonnet was an Italian poetical form which attained great popularity in the Renaissance, and -- it was natural, -- not essential for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it.



a. hence / if
b. while / though
c. since / however
d. furthermore / rather than
e. already / even

I think D, you? No, A.
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Hi,



There should be a second comma, to make the phrase an aside.

. . . it was natural, if not essential, for Shakespeare and his contemporaries to use it.

Clive
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