Answer: Time progresses chronologically with one flashback and a return to the original time.
Explanation:
In the first part, Zeitoun is thinking of the canoe (present time), this leads to a memory of the time the canoe was stolen from the Claiborne house, he and Kathy noticed it when he was released from prison (flashback), then he thinks on how all the stolen things were replaced except for the canoe and he misses it (return to the present), finally he keeps thinking about if he should get a new canoe and if his family would like it (still present).
<em>Since you've been gone</em> is the subordinate clause.
The word since is a subordinate conjunction, and the rest of it is the subject (you) and been gone is a very phrase for the subordinate clause.
you've been gone explained above.
finished the book is the predicate of the main clause. finished is a verb and the book is the object.
Personal possessive pronouns? Sorry if this is wrong.
Answer: When summarizing the <u>beginning</u> of a plot, one should notice the key ideas about how the conflict builds.
Your answer is A, Beginning.
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