Outflow is the answer assuming that the underlined word is influx.
I believe a motif can contribute to, or become a theme when it gathers larger significance throughout a text. A theme is what you generally write about in a literary piece, so if you develop a metaphor further, it may come to denote a theme of a work.
➜︎Question
how did African Americans overcome adversity during World War II
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American Soldiers in World War II Helped Pave Way for Integration of US Military
Answer:
Because people usually have something like a dog or cat as a pet but a rat is very uncommon
Explanation:
The infinitive phrase is "to spend the afternoon tobogganing".
An infinitive phrase expresses the action in a sentence. They can often function as nouns, adjectives or adverbs. E.g.: To win the approval of her mother-in-law by cooking dinner was Mary's only hope. The infinitive phrase in bold functions as a noun because is the subject of the sentence. When the phrase explains 'how' it functions as and adjective, when the phrase explains 'why' it functions as an adverb.