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Excerpt from: Marsupials
Carole Jenkins

3 The cuscus lives in New Guinea, Indonesia, and northern Australia. It is about the size of a house cat and is 8((covered with fur to the tip of its coarse, scaly tale)). The cuscus is a nocturnal animal and lives in trees.

Read the underlined section 8. There is a mistake in the use of Standard American English conventions. Which of these answers BEST corrects that error?
A) course
B) it's
C) scaley
D) tail

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Answer: tail did this for usatestprep got it right

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Answer:

D) tail

Step-by-step explanation:

The correct answer is tail. In this context, the correct spelling of the word is "tail." The spelling "tale" means an imaginary story.

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