Which quotation from The Great Fire best reflects the central idea that the fire might have been extinguished sooner, if not for several different issues?

Towards the end of the second chapter, the narrator states the following:

"Later at the official inquiry, all of the mistakes and missed chances that occurred in the opening minutes of the fire would be discussed."

Explanation:

The prase missed chances connotes that there were several opportunities for the fire to be put out. A conspiracy of circumstances prevented this.

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postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class