Answer: d. outside to see what flickering flames are near the marsh
Explanation: Merriton was going to investigate flames that were flickering outside near the marsh just like a signal fire would do. Watching the flames for a good twenty minutes made him nervous and informed his decision to go see what was causing it.
Answer:
a. complex (independent clause + dependent clause)
b. compound (independent clause + independent clause)
One of the characteristics of that court is the strong belief in the devil, factions among Salem fanatics and the fact of people practicing witchcraft. And today there is a Salem Witch Museum located in the state of Massachusetts in honor of that court.
To understand if they are noun phrases or not, it is necessary to understand its definition:
A noun phrase is a word or a set of words including a noun, whose function in a sentence can be: to act as a subject, an object or a prepositional object.
Sentence A is not a noun phrase. it is a prepositional phrase functioning as the postmodifier of the noun phrase (a lovely bouquet).
Sentence B is a noun phrase functioning as the subject of the sentence.
Sentence C is a noun phrase functioning as a direct object.
Sentence D is not a noun phrase, as it is a dependent clause and has not nouns in it.
