Answer:
The author presents the Reverend as an eyewitness to multiple examples of Scoresby's good fortune, which adds reliability to his account.
Explanation:
According to the book "Luck" by Mark Twain, the story is told of an English war hero Lord Scoresby who is a total idiot but managed to achieve legendary status by sheer luck. The Reverend was an instructor to Scoresby at military academy and tells how Scoresby somehow got through military school even though he is a complete idiot.
Therefore the author advances the plot through the use of the Reverend character by presenting Reverend as an eyewitness which adds reliability and credibility to his account.
The choice that correctly identifies the type of verb traveling is in each of the sentence above is option A. Sentence 1: gerund, sentence 2: participle.
Sentence 1 uses the word "Traveling" as a gerund. A gerund is a word that takes the verb form -ing, but functions as a noun in the sentence. In sentence 2, the word "traveling" is used as a participle. A participle is a word that also takes the form of a verb, but functions as an adjective or as a noun.
I believe that when cherry valance described things as being rough all over, she meant that life
Is a double sided coin, and that there’s good and bad things that plague people’s lives no matter how good they may seem to have it.
Metaphors, similes, symbolism
