It uses these things to try and get you to by that toothpaste for example by saying it's the best toothpaste ever. I hope I helped.
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My back is sore from cleaning all day.
The answer is C) was, it is the past tense of being.
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He's trying to explain what exactly motivated him, particularly in the second paragraph. It was none of the things that would motivate someone to commit murder. Gain of any kind was out of the question. Feelings were not the motive. Nothing the old man had motivated him.
It was just his eye. So he's in a battle with himself. (That's the first answer).
We are leading up to something and we need to have a background. This is not the climax or the resolution. It is not the falling action -- just the opposite. It is the build up towards the climax.
So the only thing it can be is the exposition which is the second answer.
