Answer: I
Direct Object is the thing being acted by the verb. For example in this sentence: watching is the verb, so then ask watching what? Tv. So tv is the direct object.
Indirect object is noun doing the verb. So for this example, who is watching the tv? I. I is the person doing the action so I is the indirect object.
Hello. Although you have submitted the text, you have not submitted any questions associated with it. This makes it impossible for me to give you an answer. However, I will try to help you by showing you the context and the meaning of this text within the story.
This text is an excerpt from "A Long Way Gone" written by Ishmael Beah, where he recounts the experiences he had when he became a soldier, still a child at the age of 12, in the Sierra Leone War.
The excerpt presented by you shows how much the war and the situation where Beah lived made him mature a lot and at an early age, since from an early age, he understood the concept of death and especially the concept of death of someone dear and loved. He presents the monkey as a representation of the government, blamed for the deaths and the problems that all citizens in the region are facing, for this reason, the government needs to be removed, killed and overthrown, preventing other people from being killed on his behalf.
An independent clause is a clause or a part of a sentence that can also be another sentence on its own. It has its own subject and predicate.
Of all the sentences given, letter B has an independent clause. Why is that?
In letter B, the sentence "Alan wants to visit his friends before he returns to college." can be broken down into two sentences.
1. Alan wants to visit his friends.
2. He returns to college.
In this case, we have 2 independent clause in one sentence which is why letter B is the answer.
