<p>I need some help with the ACT English question of the day (June 29th). (Question below)</p>
<p>After the final performance of one last
practice landing, the French instructor nodded to the
young African-American woman at the controls and
jumped down to the ground. Bessie Coleman was on
her own now. She lined up the nose of the open
cockpit biplane on the runway’s center mark, she gave
the engine full throttle, and took off into history.
[2]
It was a long journey from the American
Southwest she’d been born in 1893, to these French skies.
The year in which she was born was about a century ago.
There hadn’t been much of a future for her in Oklahoma
then. After both semesters of the two-semester year
at Langston Industrial College, Coleman headed for
Chicago to see what could be done to realize a dream.
Ever since she saw her first airplane when she was
a little girl, Coleman had known that someday, somehow,
she would fly.
[3]
Try as she might, however, Coleman could
not obtain flying lessons anywhere in the city. Then
she sought aid from Robert S. Abbott of the Chicago
Weekly Defender. The newspaperman got in touch
with a flight school in France that was willing to
teach this determined young woman to fly.
[4]
[1] While they’re, she had as one of her
instructors Anthony Fokker, the famous aircraft
designer. [2] Bessie Coleman took a quick course in
French, should she settle her affairs, and sailed for
Europe. [3] Coping with a daily foreign language
and flying in capricious, unstable machines held
together with baling wire was daunting, but Coleman
persevered.
[5]
On June 15, 1921, Bessie
Coleman, earned an international pilot’s license,
issued by the International Aeronautical Federation.
Not only was she the first black woman to win her
pilot’s wings, she was the first American woman to
hold this coveted license.
[6]
She was ready for a triumphant return to the
United States to barnstorm and lecture proof that if
the will is strong enough for one’s dream can be
attained.</p>
<p>Choose the best alternative for the underlined part 13 (lecture proof)</p>
<p>A. NO CHANGE
B. lecture and proof
C. lecture, proof
D. lecture proof,</p>
<p>The correct answer is C. I didn’t really get the question. There was a complicated explanation saying something about appositives, which I’ve never even heard of. Can someone please explain how the answer is C?
Thank you!!! :)</p>