Casual assuming that the sentence your referring to is "Identify the mood of this sentence"
The answer is 5 please like this
Farther for physical distance and further for metaphorical or figurative distance.
Yes in my opinion because dogs need love just the same as you do
The speaker is talking about the water. During winter, the water enters the cracks and freezes and expands. It breaks the stone and makes cracks and when the water melts the holes are bigger. What he is describing is mechanical weathering which is common in nature.