You got correct answers! Good job
Let's reconstruct this sentence.
"Everyone I know complain" doesn't make much sense.
Popping an "s" on the end of "complain" might do the trick, lets try!
"Everyone I know complains" ah, there we go. Much smoother.
Next section!
"Complains because these days backpacks weigh a ton."
Though this may sound correct, it is still quite a bunch. Let's fix that.
Rearranging your words might work.
Maybe in the section that says "Complains because these days" we can change that to "Complains these days because" Much smoother, and easier to read.
We have so far is: "Everyone I know complains these days because"
Yay, let's continue.
The remaining of the sentence is fine so we can put it on the end of our freshly constructed sentence.
Our final sentence should be:
"Everyone I know complains these days because backpacks weigh a ton."
I believe the answer is <span>obsession with the past
in the novel, Ahab is depicted as the only character that do not grow throughout the story due to his single-minded obsession.
He stabbed his first whale when he was eighteen years old and yet still obsessed until he's almost 50.</span>
The pronoun <em>himself </em>is an intensive pronoun only, it is not reflexive.
Intensive pronouns are used to place emphasis on the subject of a sentence. Here, we want to emphasize that Jason did the whole work on his own. You can easily deduce whether a pronoun is intensive or reflexive if you remove it from the sentence - if the sentence still makes sense, then the pronoun is intensive because they are not essential in sentences. If the sentence no longer makes sense, it means that the pronoun is reflexive.
Here, if you take out the pronoun, the sentence will go like this:
Jason finished the remodeling.
As you can see, the sentence still makes perfect sense, which is why the pronoun is intensive.
