Answer:
In a tedious manner, she nonchalantly picked at the sunken couch till the detailed patterns of the once bright flowers withered away.
Answer:
Saki's short story, ''The Mouse,'' explores the overly worried mind of the main character, Theodoric, as he frets his way through an odd predicament. In order to dislodge a mouse from his clothing, Theodoric must strip down in the middle of a train car, in front of a young woman.
Explanation:
1. variation of a kernel sentence - a transform
2. lays down rules - prescriptive
Prescriptives are often given to set guidelines and rules for behavior.
3. division into halves - Lateralization
A lateral line would divide something into two parts. In this case, specifically into two halves.
4. study of word forms - morphology
The root word morph specifically means the form or shape of something.
5. simplest form of a sentence - kernel sentence
This is the basic form of a sentence with a subject and verb with no modifiers or connectives.
6. word forms in characteristic sequence - paradigm
7. developed transformational grammar - Noam Chomsky
8. a class of words in structural linguistics - interrogative
9. false idea or mistaken belief - fallacy
Fallacy contains the same root word as false - something that is not true.
10. a form of a noun or pronoun - case
The old cliché of one man's meat is another man's poison.
