D. Leslie ran to the door, greeting his mother with open arms.
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"Hiking through these mountain ranges is very challenging." The active verb is "is". There is also a gerund, "hiking" which serves as the subject of the sentence. The subject clause is "Hiking through these mountain ranges", so even though "hiking" is a verb form, a gerund, it is not the verb in this sentence; it is part of the subject clause.
The rest of the passage contains other types of verb clauses, so you need to study those until you understand them! (:
The answer is: [A]: "common noun".
The word: "report" ; is a common noun.
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Answer:
The football player was thrown out of the class by Ms.Stumpf
Third Person Objective—the narrator is not part of the story and does not know characters’ thoughts or a feeling, but only states their actions and speech. Imagine you are holding a video camera. You see all the action, but there is no one to tell you what the actors are thinking.
Hope this helps :)