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Read the excerpt below and classify the highlighted words according to their status as ...

Read the excerpt below and classify the highlighted words according to their status as true or false cognates for Portuguese speakers.


“It was commenced, partly as a source of amusement, and partly as an expedient for exercising any untried resources of mind. Other motives were mingled with these, as the work proceeded. I am by no means indifferent to the manner in which whatever moral tendencies exist in the sentiments or characters it contains shall affect the reader; yet my chief concern in this respect has been limited to the avoiding of the enervating effects of the novels of the present day, and to the exhibition of the amiableness of domestic affection, and the excellence of universal virtue.”


A

commenced → true cognate; expedient → false cognate; moral → false cognate; sentiments → true cognate.


B

commenced → false cognate; expedient → false cognate; moral → true cognate; sentiments → false cognate.


C

commenced → true cognate; expedient → true cognate; moral → false cognate; sentiments → false cognate.


D

commenced → false cognate; expedient → true cognate; moral → false cognate; sentiments → true cognate.


E

commenced → true cognate; expedient → false cognate; moral → true cognate; sentiments → true cognate.