Answer:
But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing.
Explanation:
According to a different source, this question refers to the text in which Queen Elizabeth I responds to the marriage proposal of Erik of Sweden. The inference that Ethan makes about this text is the following:
<em>Queen Elizabeth thinks Erik of Sweden is needlessly vain.</em>
The best sentence from the text to use in order to support this inference is:
<em>But that we are not to give you an answer until we have seen your person is so far from the thing itself that we never even considered such a thing.</em>
This sentence indicates that Erik of Sweden believed Queen Elizabeth could not accept his proposal until he showed up in person. However, Queen Elizabeth is correcting him. She states that this was never a possibility, as it is not an issue of seeing him in person or not. She simply has no interest in marrying him, and she had never even considered it possible.
The corresponding version of the sentence with gerunds is the following:
"Running competitively means learning everything about yourself while having the time of your life"
The use of gerunds is actually the use of verbs in -ing form to represent nouns. Such nouns can be either the subject or object of a sentence.
In this case, gerunds represent activities (running, learning), but you should remember that using gerunds is not the same than using present continuous. Present contiunous is used to talk about activities in progress, that is to say, activities that are not finished yet.
Could you please provide the passage for this question? I would love to help :)
I think the answer is B. An argument.
Answer:
B). But if you open your mind as widely as possible, then signs and hints of almost imperceptible fineness, from the twist and turn of the first sentences, will bring you into the presence of a human being unlike any other.
Explanation:
The author's purpose is described as his/her intention or reason behind the creation of a particular text. It could be either to inform them or entertain them, merely share an event or invoke sarcasm to critique human follies, etc.
In the given excerpt, the author intends to show that 'how one should read a book' which is best reflected through option B as here, the author discloses that a reader must read a text with an open and broad mind as it would help them develop a better and effective understanding of the work. Thus, option B is the correct answer.
