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The next day he spent his lawn-mowing money on a new shirt and, with a pocketknife, scooped the moons of dirt from under his fingernails. The descriptive language shows that

Alfonso's fingernails are white.
the dirt has a curved shape.
Alfonso gets very dirty at work.
lawn mowing is a profitable job.

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b : the dirt has a curved shape.

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User Fatemeh Jabbari
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The correct option is THE DIRT HAS A CURVED SHAPE.
From the passage given above, the author used moons in his statement in order to describe the shape of the dirt under Alfonso nails. A full moon is round in shape but as the days pass by it becomes curve in shape.
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