I would think it is to communicate Jen’s anxiety because she seems scared and she’s talking in short sentences like she is trying to gather her thoughts because she’s nervous.
Sentences can be formed by phrases or clauses, in this case the italicized words are a phrase. A phrase is a grammatical unit composed by a set of words without subject and predicate whereas a clause is a grammatical unit formed by a set of words that includes a subject and a predicate.
The noun phrase “Wishing to be heard” is modifying the noun “speaker” since it is providing an explanation of why the subject is performing an action.
1. a. General statement to particular thesis.
2. c. Don't give a repetition of facts word for word.
3. a. Fragment - Although he rarely goes. to the mall, to the store, on vacation, to a party, to school.
4. a. Fragment - When the stone hit the window. , it shattered., , the stone bounced off., , my father yelled at me.
5. b. comma-splice - the comma or and not both
6. c. no error
7. b. comma-splice - think, I have ever missed <-------fragmented due to the missing of have (I have never missed my appointment., I may have missed my appointment.)
8. c. no error found
Unbiased opinions are those who are uninfluenced by other opinions.
The correct answer is option d: merchants
In grammar rules, an antecedent can be identified in a sentence because it is later replaced by a pronoun. An antecedent also refers in a sentence to something that happened in the past.
In the sentence provided as an example, the Venetian 'merchants' is the noun that is later replaced by its respective pronoun (theirs). The verb brought also tells us it was something that happened in the past.
