Answer:
Dialectal has one definition:
Relating to or constituting a particular form or dialect of a language.
"dialectal variations in pronunciation"
Contraction has 4 definitions:
the process of becoming smaller.
"the general contraction of the industry did further damage to morale"
the process in which a muscle becomes or is made shorter and tighter.
"neurons control the contraction of muscles"
a shortening of the uterine muscles occurring at intervals before and during childbirth.
"she was now in no doubt that she was having contractions"
the process of shortening a word by combination or elision.
a word or group of words resulting from shortening an original form.
"“goodbye” is a contraction of “God be with you.”"
Explanation:
I would say the first three. You can visualize a person doing those things.
Answer:
The answer is passive as it the sentence is written in the past tense.
The correct answer is the following: <em>option c. Materialism was an object of critique in the works of the "Lost Generation" of writers.</em> Gertrude Stein was an American novelist from the 1920's that coined the term "Lost Generation" using it as a reference to the lack of purpose that young people had at that time, as a consequence of the World War I. The term then became popular to represent the group of authors and poets of the 1920's as their work represented the feelings the World had at those times. One of the main themes The Lost Generation wrote about was about materialism, and how many people became reckless spenders, obsessed with material objects and throwing parties on a constant as all their moral ideals had been killed by the War. Famous authors from these movement are Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald.
It is a word and sometimes a phrase which explains or modify or clarifies a word not clearly mentioned in a sentence... like after doing the homework,match was resumed... doing is action and there is no subject of main clause,,here doer is not clearly stated ..so the phrase is dangling modifier..
