Answer:
1. Everyone recognized Tara's yellow coat
Modifier: coat
Word being modified: yellow
2. Patrick heard his mother speak loudly
Word being modified: loudly
Modifier: speak
3. They all agreed that Jenny's dad made the best hamburgers
Modifier: hamburgers
Word being modified: best
Explanation:
A modifier is simply a word or phrase that adds extra meaning or gives additional information about another word in the same sentence.
Therefore, the modifier and the word it modifies almost always are together in the sentence.
4. Is the best answer because it stays on topic and has a similar tone to the previous sentences.
Answer: Readers are able to share in Spencer’s surprise at discovering that his new coach is female because this fact is not revealed at the beginning of the story
Explanation: In the narrative it is clear that, in the beginning, Spencer and the others were expecting a male coach (always referencing the coach as "will he...").
It is written that Spencer is "stunned" when he sees that the new coach is a female.
The obvious choice is b you always have a period after mr. mrs. and dr.