The answer is c. to provide for his family
The passage used a combination of comparison and contrast and: <span> C. cause and effect.
</span>The passage give us a well descriptive explanation on how the microorganisms (the cause) developed in such a way to the point where their fossils ended up as a petroleum/coal (effect)
The participle in this sentence is "sweating". It's a participle of the verb " to sweat" and it's a present participle: which we know because it ends with an -ing (past participles end with "-ed).
The sun, the sun heats up the water till it evaporates.
Cassius doesn't want Mark Antony to say anything because he doesn't trust him and he thinks Mark Antony will make matter worse and make them look bad but Brutus allows him to because he believes it will show people that they are not evil and that they did everything in the good interest of Rome.
