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For the "Cask of the Amontillado" the theme topic is betrayal. The reason is while Fortunato played many jokes on his friend Montresor he saw nothing wrong with his friend until he was lured into the wine cellar and shackled to a wall by his own friend. The betrayal of this story if how Montresor ends up killing his friend after being pranked by him over and over again. Sorry I didn't read the other one :(
Explanation:
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Gerund phrase in the given sentence is ‘reading about history’.
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A gerund are words formed with a “verb” ending with ‘ing’ but they act as nouns. For example: swimming, reading, drinking etc can be used as “gerunds”.
A “gerund phrase” will begin with gerund and include other objects and modifiers. The entire gerund phrase acts as noun in the sentence. For example, in the sentence, “I recommend reading books at home”, gerund phrase is ‘reading books at home’.
In the given sentence, gerund phrase ‘reading about history’, begins with gerund - ‘read’+ ‘ing’. It is acting as direct object here. If you ask a question, what Caroline loves? Answer is ‘reading about history’.
Answer choice A "The speaker in the poem, as well as the chorus in the play, lament noble Antigone's terrible fate." is correct.
