The flooding of the banks of the Mississippi river precluded the delta queen's docking on schedule. Hope this helps :)
The correct answer for this question is this one: "C.) "The other houses on the street...gazed at one another..." Participial phrase is a phrase that contains the <span>verb and acts as an adjective, modifying a noun or a pronoun.</span>
Here are the choices:
A.) "We waited to see whether she would remain or go in..."
<span>B.) "Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance" </span>
<span>C.) "The other houses on the street...gazed at one another..." </span>
D.) "I listened to the fall of the coins."
Answer:
The power in nature that one perceives is due both to nature and to one’s own intelligence.
Explanation:
In the last paragraph but one, the author says, "The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable." And the final paragraph starts with this statement, "Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in nature, but in man, or <u>in a harmony of both</u>."
I wrote one but it won’t let me type it because it’s apparently not the ‘right answer’