A gerund looks like a verb but functions the same way as a noun. But, why does it look like verbs? What does it have in a sentence that a verb does? OBJECT is your answer. They both have objects. For instance, in the sentence, "I dropped my coffee mug" The gerund is "dropped" and it dropped an object (mug). Therefore, your answer is Object.
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Prefixes are added to the beggining of a word to change or modify its meaning
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Hyperbole is the use of exaggeration as a rhetorical device or figure of speech.
Example: It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing hats and jackets.
Example: I am so hungry I could eat a horse
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E) The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
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This is because he includes himself in it by saying things such as "I", and includes The Widow Douglas, and presents as a "bad" acquaintance.
Our coach was feeling rancor when we lost and did not make it to the playoffs, then decided to take it out on us.