Answer: To illustrate Japan's isolation in the 1800s.
Explanation: The outside source in this excerpt (the first few lines) clearly describes how while the rest of the world was dealing with monarchies, wars and developing new technologies like trains and wheels, Japan decided to be totally closed off from all of that, and they concentrated just in painting screens for 200 years.
I believe the answer is 3
B. he
The word 'he' is being modified by the participial phrase.
The word 'laughing' is the participle.
A PARTICIPLE is a verbal that is used as an adjective and most often ends in -ing or -ed. They express an action or a state of being. However, since they function as adjectives, participles modify nouns or pronouns.
A PARTICIPIAL PHRASE <span> is a group of words consisting of a participle and the modifier(s) and/or (pro)noun(s) or noun phrase(s) that function as the direct object(s), indirect object(s), or complement(s) of the action or state expressed in the participle.
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The answer is: [A]: " Persian " .
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<u>Note</u>: Although no "sentence" is provided, it is possible to determine the correct answer is: Choice: [A]: "Persian" ; since among the answer choices provided — "Persian" is the only "proper adjective" that exists.
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I think it means that you should put in another idea
