Question #6402328Single Choice

Writing and Reading

Question

The writer is considering deleting the underlined sentence. Should the sentence be kept or deleted?

Kept, because it introduces the quote from the New York Times in the next sentence.

Kept, because it adds a vital detail about Tweed that is necessary to understand his power.

Deleted, because it blurs the focus of the paragraph by introducing loosely related information.

Deleted, because it contains information that undermines the main claim of the passage.

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