Percolating is the process of a liquid slowly passing through a filter.
Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, idea, abstract quality, nature, emotion, event, or inanimate object is given human characteristics or qualities, such as the ability to think, to speak and to write. This figure of speech is often employed to give readers different insights about something and to make the writing more vivid or memorable.
What human qualities are given to the thorns in this sentence?
The thorns are given the quality of intentionally grabbing something as if they had the ability to think and perform such action.
What does this example of personification literally mean?
It means that the thorns got stuck in the speaker's t-shirt and prevented her or him to pass or walk smoothly.
A gang is a group with bad intentions. A clique is more like a friend group
Answer:
D. "What we can confirm is that talks are going on," Konstantin Kreidenko, a spokesman for the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Explanation:
In American English, quotations are separated with a comma from their introductory phrase. In that respect, in this sentence, the comma goes within the closing quotation mark.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the sentence is not correctly punctuated, and quotations cannot be separated from their explanatory phrase with a period or without any punctuation marks.
