Question

(8) “Our next unit is going to focus on basketball,” Lindy grumbled irritable.

What change needs to be made in sentence 8?
A
Delete the comma after basketball
B
Change grumbled to grumbles
C
Change irritable to irritably
D
Insert quotation marks after the period

Answer 1

C

Explanation: The verb "grumbled" needs an adverb to modify it, so "irritable" (an adjective) should be changed to "irritably."