What is this mean I don’t understand the question
Answer:
Algernon bites Charlie. Algernon is less cooperative, refuses to run the maze, decreased motivation, has to be fed. Why do the changes in Algernon worry Charlie? It means that things aren't looking to good for him, that he will lose his intelligence, and maybe much more.
Explanation:
Hope I <em><u>Helped!</u></em> :D
It would be a verb phrase
By reminding readers that brides had little control over whom or at what age they could marry.
We know that back then people did not have much say in who it was they married. Their parents chose for them who they saw fit and that was that. Very little was the spouse chosen by the person themself. So this encounter reminds us that back then brides has almost no control over who it was that they would marry.