How does this example support the author's main purpose ill the book?

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O. It shows how citizens' actions affect today's issues.

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The main purpose of a text is the effect that the author wants to achieve on the reader. For example, a text that addresses a political issue, wants to alert the reader to the country's politics, a text about social inequality wants to show the reader the social problems resulting from that inequality, a descriptive text wants to describe something to the reader.

In this case, to answer your question, you must read the text, identify what the author is trying to show you through that text and how the example achieves this purpose, that is, how the example shows what the author wants to show through text.

the right ones are in bold.

daintly refers to the fact she was reaching for what she ate, not necessarily what she is like.

greatest charm as in she possessed (=had) the greatest charm.

pleasant (her demeanor)

speaking (of her sensibility)

dead refers to the hypothetical mouse.

bleeding refers to the hypothetical mouse.

to and without are prepositions, so a, b, and d are prepositional phrases. the adverb phrase is c, about the surprise.

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