Answer:
A) dependent
Explanation:
"Lamb to the Slaughter" (1953) is a short story by by Roald Dahl (1916-1990).
The story is narrated in third person omniscient point of view.
Mary Maloney (Mrs. Patrick) is narrated as six-month pregnant wife. She is waiting for her husband to come home from his job as a local police detective. When he returns, she busies herself in bringing dinner for him, but Mr. Patrick indirectly tells her that he is about to leave her. This sudden discovery shocks her and she kills her husband with a frozen lamb leg. Next she goes to grocery shop, buys some items, informs police about the murder, cooks the lamb's leg (murder weapon) and makes them eat it.
Mary Maloney is over-dependent on her husband. At this stage (six months) of her pregnancy she needs her husband's support the most. In order to keep him happy she does everything even beyond her present condition. Her over-dependency on her husband shocks her the most, because if she had any alternative, she might have coped with this shock (her husband leaving her). Although she acts intelligently by avoiding any suspicion and cooking the murder weapon, but this intelligence is not part of her character. It was temporary and out of necessity to save her born-to-be child from the consequences.
She expressed her anger by taking the most serious action, but again this expression was out of a huge shock and not constant part of her character. Had it been constant part of her character, she would have been mentally ready to listen such a thing from her husband any time in their married life.
Yes, she was isolated but dependency is the most prominent characteristic of her personality. Moreover, before the murder, there seems no such evidence that she was isolated by her husband because in such a case she would have been accepting her husband's action, and this would not have shocked her that much.
Simple past tense verbs are used for completed actions that happened before now. It's the basic form of past tense, used to say when something happened. The action is in the past, either recently or distantly. For example: "We lived in Chicago during the 1980s."
Infinitive verbs are the basic form of verbs, with the word "to" in front of it. There are no conjugations used with it (such as -ed, -ing, or -s). For example: "Sherry wanted to score more points than her brother in basketball."
Irregular verbs are those that don't use the typical -ed, -d, or -ied forms of spelling of past simple or past participles. For example: "I would like to drink more of your raspberry lemonade. I drank some yesterday and it was amazing!" (We wouldn't add an -ed to drink like most verbs to say "drinked"; instead, we would use the irregular verb drank.)
Past perfect verbs are those used for actions that were completed at some point in the past. They're used when talking about something that occurred before something else. For example: "Mark did so well on the math test because he had been tutored all month."
The best answer would be D. past perfect since you're using a verb that occurred before another action in the past.
Answer:
verb
gerund or present participle: previewing
display (a product, movie, play, etc.) before it officially goes on sale or opens to the public.
"the company will preview an enhanced version of its database"
see or inspect (something) before it is used or becomes generally available.
"the teacher should preview teaching aids to ensure that they are at the right level"
comment on or appraise (a forthcoming event) in advance.
"next week we'll be previewing the new season"
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