Answer: C. Martha's lawsuit was useful to punish the corporation for failing to pay its taxes over an eight year period.
Explanation:
In this sentence we can recognize infinitive direct-object phrase - to pay.
They can be found if we can ask a question ''what'' and in this case we are asking ''Martha's lawsuit was useful to punish what'' and then we are getting the answer which is ''to punish corporation for...'' In those kind of sentences when we are looking for the object of the verb, we must try to recognize if the infinitive phrase that we have(to punish in this case, and to pay) is making sense.
In this sentence we are having a direct object.
Answer:
ambiguous
Explanation:
To be ambiguous means to be open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning.
<span>The correct order of events in Ivan Ilyich’s life as depicted in chapters 5–8 of Tolstoy’s "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is as follows:
1. </span><span>Tiles Ivan Ilyich tries to read a Zola novel while convincing himself that he is healing, but his pain returns worse than ever.
2. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich visits a specialist who tells him that his vermiform appendix is the problem
3. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich tries to use the logic of Caius the mortal to try to make sense of dying but fails.
4. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich tries to distract himself from his death by resuming his professional duties as a judge but fails.
5. </span><span>Ivan Ilyich watches his family leave to go to the theater and finally gains some peace.</span>
