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In the passage, ‘The Sand Reckoner” Marcus’s words about needing to disembark contribute to the plot because in paragraph 2 Archimedes is trying to play mathematical games with Marcus, but Marcus is trying to get Archimedes to be serious. He is trying to get Archimedes to understand there’s a war going on and he needs to focus and stop playing games.
Packing the abacus = Facing reality, and seeing that a war is going on, and Syracuse has protected itself. Focusing and attending to the tasks at hand.
The underlined phrase is this one:
"<span>fog rolling down the river"
The correct answer is this one: "Absolute Phrase." </span><span>Absolute phrases do not directly connect to or modify any specific word in the rest of the sentence; instead, they modify the entire sentence, adding information. </span>
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I would describe praying as bending on knees position hoping for a miracle to come true from whatever religion or spiritually being
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