Mary devoted much of the rest of her life to (13) the intensive and oft stymied project of shaping Percy’s poems, letters, essays, and other fragments into a definitive collection of his life’s work.

Question

If the writer were to delete the underlined portion, the sentence would lose:
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Select one answer
A
details that show how difficult and long the process was.
B
an explanation of the steps Mary took to gather all of Percy's written work.
C
a description of Percy's projects.
D
details that describe what it is like to read Percy's essays.

Answer 1

If the writer were to delete the underlined portion, the sentence would lose details that show how difficult and long the process was.