The phrase helps to conclude the text and does not add to the writing. ... The phrase adds a specific detail about time that is relevant to the text's topic. The phrase helps to introduce the text's topic by providing a direct object.
B. Took around half an hour to complete.
The complete predicate includes the verb and the rest of the sentence.
A good leader has to be levelheaded and lookout for the country as a whole, but also for the individual people’s needs.
I feel like the answer is A.
The Thoreau feel that the people who serve the state have the same worth as dogs or horses and that they should receive no more respect then a man of straw or a lump of dirt, so these people feel that working for the state rarely make any moral distinctions,and it also says in the paragraph that they are likely to serve the devil. So by this article we can clearly see that they are apposed to any form of serving the state.
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