Answer:
1. Yesterday, the cobbler mended your shoes.
2. We raised the flag a short time ago.
3. He shot it down this month.
4. They left ten minutes ago.
5. Yesterday, the doctor gave him an injection.
Explanation:
I have been able to rewrite the sentences in the Simple Past Tense adding the expressions in the brackets.
The simple past tense is known to be a verb tense which talks about actions or activities that took place or existed before now.
Such tenses are used to describe and explain the events that took place in the past. In English, regular verbs actually form the simple past tense "-ed" while other irregular verbs can take different forms.
Despite adding the expressions in the brackets while rewriting the sentences, the simple past tense is still retained.
Answer:
Postponing the plot in order to focus on Theseus.
Explanation:
Suspense is a feeling of intensity a reader experiences while anticipating an intrigue's outcome. Authors have different ways of creating suspense whose objective is to <em>awake interest</em> and <em>encourage further lecture</em>.
In this particular excerpt, the delay in events is produced by a sudden <em>episode</em> on Theseus, an important character whose story <em>slows down the denouement of the main story.</em>
