Answer:
Possessive adjective.
Explanation:
Adjectives are part of speech that stand beside a noun and modify it. There are several types of adjectives: descriptive, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, or indefinite.
Possessive adjectives imply possession of something or when it is about humans - relationship.
What often is confused are possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns, but pronouns stand on their own.
In the given sentence possessive pronoun would be used in this way:
All eggs in the basket are yours.
Answer:
1. Since the 1700's, people have used balloons filled with gas lighter than air to float above the ground.
2. Inventors have been trying since as early as the 1800s to create a heavier-than-air machine that would fly.
3. Originally the machines were not meant to carry people.
4. Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first to fly a powered airplane in sustained height.
5. At Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, the flight lasted 12 seconds, and went 120 feet.
6. They succeeded, they had studies aerodynamics, the principles of the movement of air around objects.
7. From this beginning, the airplane industry was started.
8. Louis Bleriot, a Frenchman, was the first pilot to fly across the English Channel in 1909.
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Answer: 2. They are unrealistic and are therefore unachievable.
Explanation:
Harold Marshall begins this speech by stating that he does have any idealistic promises that will magically fix the city. He states that he is simply a normal citizen and like the rest of the people has heard those promises before from previous mayoral candidates.
Explaining why he does not have such promises for the people, he states that every mayor that has promised them has receded into the annals of history without taking them any closer to the goals they promised. This paints a picture of a man who believes that those goals were unrealistic and by extension unachievable.
