The correct answer is letter b.
The excerpt is written in the Simple Past and narrates a series of events that happened in a sequence.
Notice the verbs in the Simple Past : wept, wailed, fell, faded and died.
There is a verb missing in the part " the earth stiff and cold" The verb is grow, the Simple Past form is grew, therefore " the earth grew stiff and cold" is the correct way.
Letter A is wrong because there's a verb missing.
Letter C and letter D " the earth was growing stiff and cold" the verb grow is in the Past Continuos, " the leaves were falling from the sorrowing trees" the verb fall is also in the Past Continous breaking the pattern stablished.
Answer:
The acropolis was a place of gathering where one was able to congregate with others and often was a place to worship that city-states god or goddesses such as the Athenian Parthenon that worshiped Athena, but the acropolis also served as a place that could protect citizens from attacks due to its elevation
Explanation:
C. is the answer. Unlike all the others, it is a complete sentence
Red is describing the hair
Yes, because her class represents a random sample of students in the school. Instead of asking every single student in the school, which would take too long, it is much easier to poll a small group of people to see what they think, and then have their opinion represent a larger community. Although if Maggie had asked more people, her answer would have been more precise, the sample could still be highly accurate. Hope this helps even though I am asking the day after this was posted and this question is in the wrong subject. It should be in math, but it's not that big of a deal.