Read the passage from "how should one read a book? ”

then turn from your blurred and littered pages to the opening pages of some great novelist—defoe, jane austen, hardy. now you will be better able to appreciate their mastery.

if the passage were presented as a play, how would it most likely differ from its current genre?

a. the author might place defoe, austen, and hardy in a setting on jupiter.
b. the author might go into detail about the lives of defoe, austen, and hardy.
c. the author might write a plot in which defoe, austen, and hardy solve a crime.
d. the author might include dialogue for the roles of defoe, austen, and hardy.

If the passage were presented as a play, the way it most likely differ from its current genre is:

Based on the given question, we can see that if the current passage was changed to a play, then it would be different as it would include dialogue for the characters.

This is because, drama/plays makes use of dialogues, monologues, soliloquy and other elements to convey their thoughts and feelings to the audience and other characters.

Therefore, the correct answer is option D

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- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

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