D) Verb: has been raining Mood: indicative
The entire verb phrase is "has been raining". "Has" and "been" are both helping verbs that create the present progressive tense. This tense is used to show something that is happening and has been happening for a period of time. The indicative mood is correct because the indicative mood indicates something that fact. Interrogative mood is question form. Conditional form is based on something else happening.
The mood is troubled and amazed.
Troubled: When all the kids laughed at him
Amazed: When he started dribbling. His coach was amazed
The correct answer is:
This is an example of the writer telling through description rather than showing through dialogue.
Sometimes writers like to explain explicitely what's happening instead of adding dialogues of the situations., which is the case in this passage,
The answer to your question is C.
Answer:
the answer is "informal language"
