<em>An adverb is a word that modifies a verb or an adjective.</em>
The strange boy whistled and put his hand into his pocket, as far as the big coat sleeves would let them go.
Semicolon is not correct before the conjunction "and".
Answer:
The alien with the baseball bat contributes to the effectiveness of the cartoon because:
B. It uses humor to show that unknown factors keep damaging the probes humans send.
Explanation:
Keefe finds a funny and, of course, improbable explanation as to why probes sent from Earth are constantly being damaged. In his cartoon, aliens play baseball. If that weren't funny enough, they are doing it with the purpose of breaking the probes. In a way, Keefe is using something that many people have most likely wondered: What if aliens do exist, but they do things that keep us from finding out about them?
The phrase that has a connotation of freedom and adventure is: "splashed on through the swamp"
Taking into consideration the context in which that phrase was written we can see in the words "splash" and "swamp" John Muir's perspective of life. He was a naturalist writer who loved traveling and who found freedom and adventure in his experiences in the wild life.
