A supporting and an argumentative claim
Adverbs refer to the words which modify an adjective, a verb or an adverb. Adverbs further answers to the following question of,
<em>How? Where? When? and Why?</em>
Therefore, in the sentence, <em>yesterday Rachel worked slowly because she was so tired.</em>
Words which function as an adverb are- yesterday, so and slowly.
Yesterday answers from the following questions of<em> when?</em>
So acts as a modifier to an adverb <em>slowly</em>, and
Slowly modifies an adjective <em>slow</em>.
A:
People met me at the party and they were friendly.
B:
A waiter served us and he was very polite.
C:
My father, a man, is waiting for a bus.
D:
Sita's uncle is the man selling newspapers.
E:
My uncle answered the phone.
I think the correct answer is: They are both willing to risk their lives.
If we understand the word "willing" as ready to do something, this means they both are ready to risk their lives. We could think that the correct answer is "They are both helpless and weak" but in the first excerpt although he seems weak, he has been able to get food for his family and escape from the gamekeepers, even hitting them with the slingshot.
What they have in common is that although they are concious that their actions can kill them they are determined to do them. In the first excerpt hunting in the woods is forbidden and if someone gets caught doing it he would be "even killed". The kid has no option but to risk his life to get some food: "but my family had to eat one way or another."
The second excerpt refers to a pirate's slave, he has a miserable life and it could get worse. He is determined to scape or die trying, we can see that he has nothing else to loose, "I would rather die than spend another minute on that ship."
