Question

Read the passage.

(1) Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” (2) Poe wrote the story in 1843. (3) In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye. (4) He thinks it looks like the eye of a vulture. (5) We soon learn that the haunted man has a mysterious disease. (6) The disease has made the man insane. (7) He does not know it. (8) For seven nights, he sneaks into the old man’s room. (9) He watches the sleeping man. (10) I will not tell you what happens next because I do not want to spoil the story for you.

Which is the most effective way to combine sentences (3) and (4)?



In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye, which he thinks looks like the eye of a vulture.


In the story, thinking an old man’s eye looks like the eye of a vulture, a man is haunted by it.


In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye he thinks it looks like the eye of a vulture.


In the story, haunted by the eye of an old man that looks like a vulture, a man is haunted.

Answer 1

the answer is the first option 

Answer 2

In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye, which he thinks looks like the eye of a vulture. (This is the first option)

Step-by-step explanation:

The first option represents the best way to combine phrases (3) and (4) without removing the coherence and cohesion of the original text and maintaining all the information necessary for the reader's understanding.