Which sentence uses the word benign correctly? my mother's cookies were fresh out of the oven and totally benign.

D. The stingray had had its stinger removed and was completely benign.

Explanation:

In the incomplete set of options given in the question, what we can do first is to focus on the meaning of the word "benign" first. Benign means something or someone who is calm, gentle, not harmful. It is the opposite of violent, rough etc. So, taking this meaning into consideration, we can now try to incorporate this word to the way they are used in the sentences in the option.

While the first option use it as-

Don't be so benign as to forget your homework again

This usage is wrong.

Again, be it the second or the third option which reads as

My mother's cookies were fresh out of the oven and totally benign.

I was benign as a child, but have learned to speak up for myself as an adult.

In both sentences, the usage of this word is incorrect and makes their sentence construction seem awkward.

Whereas, the use of this word in the last option-

The stingray had had its stinger removed and was completely benign

is correct for it signifies that the stingray had become calm and harmless after having its stinger removed.

Thus, the correct answer is option D.

2nd option

explanation:

below i present a summary with the most relevant aspects of chapter 2, which were taken from karangan bahasa inggeris (english essays) spm: argumentative essays.

tuna wira

credit to mohana ram murugiah.

i hope to be of

teacher smiles at the students who wait for his signal to sit down. he nods briefly and the students sit down and get ready for the lesson to start. there is an air of quiet expectancy when teacher refers to the unusual things found underneath their houses that morning. whispers of bags of rice ran among the students and a student muttered reluctantly that the rice is rent for the landlord. this starts off the discussion on the issue of paying rent for the use of the landowner’s land. da wan raises the question of why the landlord owns the land rather than the farmer although they have spent a lot of time farming it. the three reasons of labour, need and inheritance are listed as reasons for the landlord’s ownership of the land. they are discussed and dismissed as inadequate reasons. they suggested a system of collective farming to the farmers. the headmaster comes down the corridor to observe the lesson. teacher very quickly changed the lesson to a geography wesson. the students followed his cue and no one gave the slightest notice < of the headmaster ‘s presence. when the headmaster leaves, teacher explains the implications of winning the scholarship. it involves bearing respontsibilities and the scholarship holder should master what is useful and return to the village. he should understand the injustices in the present system and change it to a fairer system. then, he announces the wiimnuir of the scholarship to be dawan.