"Gary, could you hold this string while I tie a knot?" his mother asked him. He was curled up on the couch, reading a comic book
. "Huh? Did you say something, Mom?" Gary looked up at his mother and then back to his book.
"Gary, I asked if you could help me make a knot, but it seems like you are too busy devouring that book!"
Which does Gary's mother mean when she says "you are too busy devouring that book"?
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1. that Gary has a bad habit of chewing his comic books
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2. that Gary is absorbed in reading his comic book
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3. that Gary has not been eating very healthily lately
4. that Gary is handling the comic book in a rough way
A. Preposition: over; object of the preposition: bridge
A preposition shows the location of an object, it shows where something is. In this case the preposition is "over" as that is the only word that is showing 'where' something is and thus the car becomes the object.