Answer Questions 1-9 based on The Lost Years of Merlin by TA. Barron. This is the same passage we read in class this week.
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Read the sentences from paragraph 31 below:
"Often his bare feet would slip on the wet rocks, pitching him sideways. Stumbling along, his torn brown tunic flapping about his legs, he resembled an ungainly water bird, picking his way across the shoreline."
Which phrase from the sentences best helps readers understand the word ungainly?
(1 point)
"Often his bare feet"
"Stumbling along
"tom brown tunic"
"across the shoreline"