Read the sentence. I told them how surprised and excited I was to have my painting selected, especially since I’d felt so incompetent at the beginning and I knew the competition was so ruthless. Which revision best uses dialogue to improve the sentence?

D turns the original summary into natural dialogue while keeping its key ideas: the speaker was surprised, felt incompetent at first, faced a ruthless competition, and was excited about being selected. The thoughts are expressed in complete, clear sentences. Choice C leaves “Especially since...” as a fragment, while A changes the emphasis and B sounds less natural.

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