Read these lines: "And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence, This account of you we have from all quarters received. A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs." On what is the claim about the writer based?

1. The speaker points to the peculiar construction of one sentence in the note. 2. He quotes that sentence, in which the verb received is pushed to the very end. 3. He says a French or Russian writer would not build a sentence that way. 4. He then names the habit as German, which is where the claim comes from. 5. So the evidence is the word order, option B. 6. The paper and the fee are discussed elsewhere but are not what this claim rests on. 7. The hour of delivery never appears in the quoted lines at all. _Source: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), A Scandal in Bohemia_