Me out guys! my life is so screwed up and am going through a lot and can barely manage life let alone school! it would mean a you will get 16 points too.. no bad responses to the question (if that makes sense) read the sentence from gandhi's autobiography and answer the question that follows. betrothal is a preliminary promise on the part of the parents of the boy and the girl to join them in marriage, and it is not inviolable. what does preliminary mean in this sentence? a)enduring b)primary c)tentative d)unimportant