The answer is C! (long vowel sounds) I answered this myself and it is correct. It makes sense according to what has been learned about the Great Vowel Shift.
What does timeless mean inf the following sentence?
Many old novels are timeless and still appeal to readers today.
without a specific time
The phrase "and still appeals to readers today" is a context clue. It gives an idea that the old novels are not tied to any time and if the readers read them today, they could still relate.
Hope I helped :)
The correct answer is A. It is difficult to understand the part of "seven years' transportation to America". It seems to me that you should use a passive structure so as to place the kind of sentences that English courts were allowed to give first, and after mention that the first Penal Transportation Act was the one which introduced this change. The other answers do not apply to this sentence, there are no puntuation and spelling mistakes, and there are no unnecessary words.
A past participle is a form of verbs that, if formed regularly, has the form of "stem+ed".
The past participle of "tangle" is "tangled" and the sentence with the past participle is:
I stepped into the middle of the tangled vines.
(actually the last sentence also has a past participle in it, but not only, so I am not choosing it).
