Answer:
playful and comical
Explanation:
From the excerpt, the mood is playful and comical.
This is true because the author revealed that they "pattered pitty-pat, pitty-pat each with feet and toenails, ears and hair, everything but tails,..." This shows that they were in a playful mood. Also, despite the way they pattered, when they got to the Philadelphia union depot, they had nothing to say. This also added a comical effect in the excerpt.
The answer would be - slang words and phrases. American and British English often differ greatly in such words as: highway (AmE) = motorway (BrE), or cookie (AmE) = biscuit (BrE), or diaper (AmE) = nappy (BrE), etc.
Answer:
The semantics of racial slurs has recently become a locus of debate among philosophers. While everyone agrees that slurs are offensive, there is disagreement about the linguistic mechanism responsible for this offensivenes.
Explanation:
Your answer would be "seeing is believing." The scientist was only telling the character about what the time traveling machine could do, but needed to actually show the character that the machine wasn't a fraud by actually sending it through time.
