Answer:
gerund
Explanation:
gerund i know because i did this before
<h3>I'll just remove the answer because you don't need it :/ </h3>
<span>D) water reading and book reading
The paragraph talks about how Mr. Bixby thinks the speaker is ready to learn water-reading at the end of the paragraph and at the beginning he talks about pretending to read the water as if it were a book.
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