<u>Answer</u>:
The excerpt from the selection that best helps you to visualize Mrs. Pratchett is - "...Mrs. Pratchett's skinny goat's legs trotting to keep up with him. So, the Option D is the accurate answer.
<u>Explanation</u>:
In Roald Dahl’s “Boy: Tales of Childhood,” is a medium through which he recalls his school days and the pranks he played during his young age. Mrs. Pratchett is a character found in his autobiography and was the owner of a sweet shop. She was described as a mean, small, dirty, skinny lady with a moustache. Her apron was greasy and grey in appearance. Her blouse had marks of breakfast on it. Her hands were dirty and full of grime. Plus, she had goat-like legs. All these adjectives give the reader an idea about how Mrs. Pratchett actually looked.
Answer:
Five sisters in Texas find a dead body along the river border, and take a magical journey to return the dead man to his family in Mexico with the help of a ghost. Returning home to Texas turns into an odyssey, a Mexican American version of The Odyssey.
Explanation:
One of the characteristics of legal English is <span><span>archaic English words.
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Main Characteristics of Legal English are:
1) </span>Sentences often have apparently peculiar structures influenced by the French grammatical structure.
2) Punctuation is used insufficiently.
3) Foreign phrases are sometimes used instead of English phrases
4) Older words like hereof, thereof, and whereof are used in legal English
primarily to avoid repeating names or phrases. AKA ARCHAIC ENGLISH WORDS.
5) Use of modifiers such as the same, the said, the aforementioned
6) Legal English contains some words and titles in which the reciprocal and opposite nature of the relationship is
indicated by the use of alternative endings: -er, -or, and –ee.
7) Phrasal verbs are often used in a quasi-technical sense
Answer:
1. People are still living in poverty and inequality in India.
3. Millions of people are suffering and are in need of help.
Explanation:
"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech made by <em>Jawaharlal Neru</em>, an Indian independence activist who served as India's first Prime Minister. The speech as made when India gained its independence from the British Empire.
The speech was meant to tell the people of the history of India until it, finally, was able to achieve freedom. It talks about suffering of all the people who never gave up for that particular day (liberation day) to finally arrive.
Although India is finally free, it is still a problem for the nation to end the millions of people who are suffering. So, this means that these millions of people are in need of help. This is because many people are still living in poverty and inequality in India. Thus, the goal for India's full liberation is not yet achieved. It is then important that people help each other.
