Pooling means kind of like searching.
Answer:
These are beautiful paintings!
Explanation: By addressing all of them your not singling out one thing which makes it indirect speech.
Yes the aurthor should know becaus he or her is the one that made it up
The answer is D This hat is his.<span>this" is the demonstrative word. The only one that uses it to describe something is D. The others use it as a demonstrative noun.</span>