She write everything down in her book thing.
The best and the most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the fourth choice. The underlined phrase that is a participial phrase is "<span>'Having determined a need to offer opportunities for sports and leisure activities', the city created several recreation areas." </span>I hope my answer has come to your help. God bless and have a nice day ahead!
This particular excerpt makes part of the bigger poem "The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls", written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow between 1807 and 1822. In essence, this particular poem makes reference to the process of life, death and rebirth, through the image of the ocean, its movements, its activities and its effects on life. The poem is short, only three stanzas long, and most of it shows the sadness of life as it comes and then ebbs away, marking with it the time limitation on life.
In this particular excerpt of the poem, Longfellow is making reference to how natural events, like the flow of the sea, affect human beings, their lives, and links the two things, human life, and nature, by giving an almost human characteristic to the ebb and flow of the sea. This is why, the correct answer here is B: Human beings are challenged by events in the natural world.
I believe that the correct answer is the first one, letter a.
