Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet . Hamlet: What hour now? Horatio: I think it lacks of twelve . Marcellus: No, it is struck. Which is the best adaptation of the underlined part of the excerpt?

“It lacks of twelve” means it is still short of twelve, or not yet twelve o’clock. So Horatio thinks the time is before twelve. Marcellus corrects him by saying the hour has already struck, meaning it is twelve.

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