Answer:
Context clues
Explanation:
This is a prevalent reading method that enables you to understand a text despite not knowing what some of the words mean; it's essentially like fill in the blank, for ideas. In fact, using context clues can not only make you understand vocabulary words better, but in can improve your understanding of a passage.
The topic that Ivan Ilyich is thinking about here is his approaching death. He is in pain, but he is trying to occupy himself with work so as not to think about the pain he is feeling. This pain leads him to think that he isn't going to live for a long time and that his death is imminent and closer than he thought. He is not ready to die, which is why he is scared and wants to forget about the fact that this is going to happen, whether he likes it or not.
Answer:
a. Before the game even started. I could tell team morale was low.
Explanation:
We are looking for a sentence fragment, or an incomplete sentence. Out of the answer choices, only choice a has a dependent fragment.
a. Before the game even started. I could tell team morale was low.
The first part, "Before the game even started," is not a sentence but rather a clause. It has a subject and verb, to be sure, but it is <em>not a complete thought.</em>
Choices b and c are both complete sentences that use correct clauses.
Heroic epic often depict exactly this - they have long complex stories that are also very culturally relevant to the culture out of which the hero comes from. They were often created in order to be sung and they also involve supernatural beings etc. which the hero has to overcome and save his people.
No other of the available answer is similar to this.
