Answer: D) had to swerve to avoid hitting the pothole in the road.
Explanation: the predicate is the part of a sentence or clause that contains a verb and states something about the subject, it is formed by the verb and the objects, complements or modifiers. In the given sentence, the complete predicate is "had to swerve to avoid hitting the pothole in the road", the verb is "had to swerve" and the rest are the complements and objects, for example: "the pothole" is the direct object and "in the road" is a prepositional phrase.
The answer is B. Tone is described as an overall feeling or attitude of a piece of writing. The feeling of isolation is repeated throughout the excerpt when it starts with the "lonesome hill" and is continued with "I walk in loneliness". Therefore your answer is that the passage has an isolated and sad tone.
