Answer:
i do not see the answer choices, but i hope this helps.
Explanation:
This story takes place in an alternative world. An inventor longs for love in a technological time where he has many inventions. Does he keep working on his inventions or does he go out and seek love? Everything around him is pollution and sad. We have to remember that technology is useful but it can never replace a real companion and real love. Do we allow technology to define humans or do we seek love and real companionship. The girl meets a guy riding a mechanical horse. She loves him but when she has to make the decision to go with him to the technology centered world in the city, she longs for the countryside. She dies in the polluted world. Guess what? He recreates her using technology.
A. Spelling
b. Punctuation
c. Grammar
d. Noun
e. Verb
f. Fluency
g. Vocabulary
Answer:
Admit that they lost the bet
Explanation:
The options you were given are the following:
- admit that they lost the bet
- bet more money on Smiley's dog
- grab Smiley's dog and tie it up
- try to help the other dog beat Smiley's dog
An idiom is a phrase that has a figurative, non-literal meaning. We can't conclude what this type of phrase means based on the meanings of individual words that make it up. Here, we have the idiom <em>throw up the sponge</em>. No one is literally throwing up sponges. This phrase means<em> </em><em>to give up a contest </em>or <em>to acknowledge defeat</em>.
Based on this information, we can conclude that the dogs are fighting until the people who own them admit that they lost the bet.
