English, 08.10.2021 06:30, hunterallan569

Which is the best example of paraphrasing for the following
passage?
[The fact is that without my
suspecting it a prodigious
mistake had been made. I
was carrying off a box of
guns which that young fellow
had come to the station to
ship to a rifle company in
Peoria, Illinois, and he had
got my corpse!]

A. The corpse was in the box in the
narrator's express car

B. The narrator was excited to deliver the
box of guns to the rifle company

C. The box in the express car was not the
coffin-the two boxes had gotten mixed
up ,

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Which is the best example of paraphrasing for the following
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