Answer:
The answers are:
It includes over forty thousand definitions.
It offers excerpted examples of the words in literature.
Explanation:
<em>Samuel Johnson's </em>"A Dictionary of the English Language" was regarded as the best dictionary of its day. It was published in 1755, thus this makes the first choice (It was published in the late 1800s) incorrect.
I<u>t has around 42,773 words with their meanings</u>, thus this makes the second choice (It includes over forty thousand definitions) correct. The dictionary which "only" contained 40,000 words was prepared by <em>Nathan Bailey.</em>
The dictionary only shows the<u> meaning of the words and "not their origin."</u> Thus, this makes the third choice (It includes information about word origin) incorrect.
The meaning of the words are illustrated with the help of quotations (excerpts) relating to literature. So, this makes the last choice (It offers excerpted examples of the words in literature) correct. Examples of the quotations comes from Shakespeare, Dryden and Milton.
However, the dictionary doesn't have a preface written by William Shakespeare. Thus, this makes the fourth choice (It has a preface written by William Shakespeare) incorrect.
Answer: The underlined words ("for there were starts out") in this excerpt are an example of an adverbial clause.
Explanation: An adverbial clause is a dependent clause, that is to say it is a clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence, and it functions as an adverb. Moreover, an adverb clause can be included at the beginning, at the middle or at the end of a sentence and it is always introduced by a subordinating conjunction. <u>"For there were starts out" is an adverbial clause because it cannot stand by itself in the sentence and it has been introduced by the subordinating conjunction "for"</u>. Moreover, it is an adverbial clause of reason since it is making reference to a cause.
The answer is B, opinions such as hating it for no reason is very inappropriate and should never be done
Answer: books represent knowledge. He is threatening because he has read a lot of books.
Explanation: I’ve read this book before.
Answer:
I believe the answer is C
Explanation:
<u>because the setting information given is that the door locks from the outside. This information is important to the plot as in describes an excuse for her leaving out the doors latter that night.</u>
