The correct answer is <span>A. My cat's favorite pastime seems to be sleeping.
That is because in this case the gerund sleeping works as a noun, functioning as an object.</span>
Satire is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony<span>, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends to </span>improve humanity by criticizing its follies and foibles. A writer in a satire uses fictional characters, which stand for real people, to expose and condemn their corruption. <span>A writer may point a satire toward a person, a country or even the entire world. Maybe this us a reason for writer to choose to write satire - the ability to say his word and criticize everything happening around.</span>
The correct answer is A) the complete predicate of this sentence is mopped his brow, exhaled sharply, and picked up his phone. You cannot separate these verbs because they are all connected.
Answer:
Comic, exaggerated
Explanation:
Jim Smiley is clearly a funny character, betting on rather arbitrary things like how far a frog can jump. He's exaggerated in the sense that he'll bet a large sum on pretty much anything ($40 in Mark Twain's day was roughly a thousand dollars today!)
The answer is C, Beleaguer.
Siege means blockade. Beleaguer has the closest definition of "cause problems or difficulties for."
hopefully this helps! have a nice day/night and good luck in your class :)
