Not off app but from a book or head

the answer is a . the absence of love

chapter i -- paris: september, 1792

a surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.

during the greater part of the day the guillotine had been kept busy at its ghastly work: all that france had boasted of in the past centuries, of ancient names, and blue blood, had paid toll to her desire for liberty and for fraternity.

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a is the indefinite article

i say that the right answer is: three personal subject pronouns. that’s because you will see “she” two times, referring to the librarian, and “they” one time, referring to the books. personal subject pronouns are used to replace common nouns or proper names.

the only possessive noun it’s present on the first sentence, when the speaker refers to “his” father.