Answer:
Ten or eleven years have gone by, and Mowgli has had a wonderful life in the jungle.
Explanation:
I got an 80 cus of the ppl that were wrong but here ya go
The correct answers should be
<span>-the greater amount of leisure available to people</span>
<span>-the growth of the publishing industry
</span><span>-increased literacy rates in the middle class
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People started educating themselves which led to increased amount of reading. Novels were not considered high culture so they were very available to the middle class.
<span>A parallel construction refers to the fact that the same form of a word or phrase is used in all of its examples. So, having this in mind, the correct answer is A. being happy, being sad, being depressed, because all of these constructions have a gerund being + an adjective. The other examples aren't as uniform as the first one is, which is why they are not parallel. </span>
