I believe you are referring to this text:
<span>In the eighteenth century Josiah Wedgwood had made some of the most expensive stoneware ceramics – in jasper and basalt – in Britain, but this tea set shows that by the 1840s, when Wedgwood produced it, the company was aiming at a much wider market. This is quite clearly mid-range pottery, simple earthenware of a sort that many quite modest British households were then able to afford. But the owners of this particular set must have had serious social aspirations, because all three pieces have been decorated with a drape of lacy hallmarked silver.
From the text, the descriptive detail that best aids the reader to visualize the central topic which is a specific early Victorian tea set is "</span><span>some of the most expensive stoneware</span>".
Answer:
B.
Explanation:
because he was man of the world
The tone of the given passage is Pessimistic.
<h3>What is a
Pessimistic tone?</h3><h3>
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A pessimistic tone can be described as a tone in which the author or speaker expects the worst to happen. It is when the speaker believes that evil outbreaks the good and believes that the bad or evil things are more likely to happen.
In the given passage the speaker is afraid of the hawk and hopes that something bad will happen to him.
Therefore the correct option is pessimistic.
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The gerund phrase in this sentence is <span>camping near a lake. The gerund itself is camping, but as a phrase, it has additional modifiers (near a lake) that describe it. Gerunds and gerund phrases function as nouns in a sentence. So, in this case, its noun use is predicate nominative (predicate noun), that is a noun that completes the predicate by telling us what the subject is.</span>
