The part of the excerpt that supports the claim that paine believed the human cost of the colonist armed struggle against the british well worth the outcome is : When Paine use empirical evidence to support his claim that Howe's army had decisively defeated the continental army.
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Anger or depression. When he wrote this poem he was in a deep state of depression and sadness. I would likely say melancholy would be a good word.
A linking verb doesn’t describe a direct action taken by subject, but links the subject to a predicate adjective or predicate noun. Therefore, your answer would be A.) The milk TURNED sour after sitting out on the counter overnight.