Subject - person or thing about whom the statement is made, before verb
April cooked apples.
(April is the subject)
Verb - the action
(Of the previous sentence, cooked is the verb)
Direct Object - answers
whom? or what?
(Cooked what? She cooked apples.)
Complement - completes the meaning of the sentence
John is weak
(Weak is the complement)
She is creating a metaphor to convey the idea that love is hard won.
Answer:
At this very moment, the International Space Station orbits Earth at a distance of 240 miles.
Explanation:
We use the simple present tense when we talk about actions that happen often, habitual actions, or truths that usually do not change or that take some time to change. For example: I sleep at 10 in the evening. / Dogs bark and birds fly. / Dora lives in Spain.
Therefore, since the orbit of the International Space Station is a truth that will most likely take long to change, it seems best to use the simple present to complete the sentence. Since the subject is third-person singular, we must add -s to the verb:
- At this very moment, the International Space Station orbits Earth at a distance of 240 miles.
Note: Another possibility would be the use of the present continuous: "is orbiting". However, that makes it seem this is just a temporary action that will, at any moment, change.
Apparently it's from the 15th Century's Old French emploier, Latin implicāre to entangle, to engage, from plicāre to fold
