Gerund phrases are used as nouns
Answer:
l think for the first the answer is C and the second the answer is D
The sentence that agrees with its subject is "A tornado during the late summer months is typical for many midwestern states."
Even though the author of Dorian Gray preached aestheticism as the ultimate goal of arts, his work does not converge to that conclusion.
Oscar Wilde, along with other artists belonging to the movement, claimed to believe art is done for art's sake. That, behind books, pictures and music, there shouldn't be a deeper meaning, a lesson to be taught and learned, any political positioning to defend or attack. Art was, thus, only supposed to be beautiful.
However, Wilde's character Dorian finds himself sinking in life for his lack of moral. Concerned only about his own youth and beauty, Dorian is incapable of loving and connecting to another human being. Consequently, everyone around him suffers and he becomes a dark and lonely soul, whose sins and real age are apparent in a picture of him painted by a friend.
Answer: D: to warn them that tensions in town were escalating
Explanation:
In the book Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Mr Jamieson, a white lawyer who is sympathetic to the black families in the south, comes to David Logan to warn him about tensions rising in town due to the boycott of the Wallace store which was run by the racist and violent Wallace brothers.
David Logan and his family had led a boycott of the Wallace General store such that black people stopped shopping there and began shopping at Vicksburg instead.
This started ruining the business of the Wallace store and this led to one of the brothers, Thomas Wallace, telling people he was going stop the purchasing from Vicksburg. Mr Jamieson upon hearing this, came to tell David (Papa) about the rising tension in the town.
