English

Tess Clarke

23 June, 11:33

Which sentence uses formal language?

A) 'It was given me by Sylvia Ward, whose portrait hangs yonder ...'

B) 'You might as well ask whether an old woman's wrinkled face could ever bloom again.'

C) There were three white-bearded gentlemen, Mr. Medbourne, Colonel Killigrew, and Mr. Gascoigne, and a withered gentlewoman, whose name was the Widow Wycherly.

D) The sunshine came through the window, between the heavy festoons of two faded damask curtains, and fell directly across this vase; so that a mild splendor was reflected from it on the ashen visages of the five old people who sat around.