Answer: B
It sounds like there's an anxious tone to this passage.
First, the father is described as "impatiently" knocking on the door. Then, there's the sister sobbing, and lots of questions asked by the narrator wondering what's wrong with her. All of this conveys a feeling of being unsettled and anxious
Answer:
The sentence contains a gerund.
Explanation:
A gerund is formed by adding -ing to a verb. It is important to understand that a gerund may look like a present participle, which is also formed with the addition of -ing, but the gerund functions as a noun.
In the sentence we are analyzing here, what we have is actually a gerund phrase, which consists of a gerund and modifiers: "biking along the shoreline." Notice that the whole phrase functions as a noun; in this specific sentence, it is the subject → What is one of my favorite hobbies? Biking along the shoreline.
Answer:
Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States. It arose as a reaction, to protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at the time. A core belief of transcendentalism is in the inherent goodness of people and nature.
