<span>Modern audiences can easily understand the themes of ambition and desire that the characters show.</span>
Well, you need to give us the choices before we can give an exact answer but normally you can evaluate the tone by thinking about the context and meaning.
some examples of strong disapproval might be: "She's such a horrible person" or "I really hate this lamp it's ugly" The bolded words show the strong disapproval.
But most likely you should be able to find it by evaluating tone.
An independent clause is a group of words that contains a subject, a predicate, and a complete thought. A dependent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a predicate, but does NOT express a complete thought.
I looked it up... I'm not sure if that's the right answer.
<span>Read the Aesop's fable of The Wolf and the Lamb from this famous book. ... "There's my supper," thought he, "if only I can find some excuse to seize it." Then he ...</span><span>
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