In this setence: "Your guesses are better than most people's facts." the word "are" is A) simple predicate.
A simple predicate is the main vern of the sentence, the rest of the words together with the main verb is called compund predicate, but this is not the case since the main verb "are" is separated from the rest when asking about its description on the sentence.
here we have another example of a simple predicate:
I like eating pizza and Nachos.
B . falling action because the rising action leads up to the climax
The correct answer is D. After "items," you want to insert a colon, then go on to list your items. colons set off a list. semicolons, as in choice A, are used to connect two independent clauses--that is, two complete thoughts--and join them into a single sentence if their subject matter is related. semicolons aren't used to set off a list in this way because "milk, bread, and eggs" is not a complete thought. choice B is incorrect because list items do not need to be contained in parentheses. choice C is incorrect because it's unclear; "items" is followed by a comma, but you need to use commas for your list items as well. a reader could mistake "items" as a part of the list, when the list only consists of foods.
