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It wasn't that I didn't want to go to the party. Okay, that's exactly it. I didn't want to go to the party. But who could blame me? Tara "the Snot" Scott was going to be there. I have no idea what possessed Andrea to invite her—Tara wasn't friends with us, had never been friends with us, and didn't even want to be friends with us. It was all pretty strange.

"But it won't be the same without you," Andrea whined. "Jodi, you have to come."
     "No, I seriously don't. All Tara does is complain about school, complain about the field hockey team, complain about. . ."
     "Yeah, but other than that, she's okay," Andrea interrupted.
     "Oh, yeah, sure. Other than that." Was Andrea being serious with me? I thought. "Look, no offense, but I'd much rather stay home and study the 5,000 vocab words Mrs. Shen assigned us."

In order to keep the point of view consistent, which paragraph would be the best choice to add to this passage?

A. I couldn't explain it any more clearly. Tara was a world-class complainer. Nobody wanted to hang out with a girl who found fault with everything and everyone.
B. The point couldn't have been clearer, Jodi thought. Tara was a world-class complainer. Jodi was positive that nobody wanted to hang out with someone like her.
C. Jodi had been clear, and Andrea knew it. Tara was a world-class complainer. They couldn't think of anyone who wanted to hang out with someone like her.
D. You couldn't have missed Jodi's point. Tara was a world-class complainer. You wouldn't want to hang out with a girl who found fault with everything and everyone.

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The answer is A because the passage is first person, so the additional sentence should be too

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A. This passage is in first person pov, from jodi's point of view, so the inserted paragraph should be too.
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