Answer: A) As a new faculty member, Susan wanted to succeed.
Explanation: an infinitive is the basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular subject or tense. A direct object is the part of the sentence that receives the action from the verb. From the given options, the sentence that includes an infinitive used as a direct object is the corresponding to option A: as a new faculty member, Susan wanted to succeed, the direct object is "to succeed."
Answer:
could miss an invaluable opportunity
Explanation:
The article provides three causes of the decline in the number of children being born.
The first cause is the reduction of mortality. If fewer children die at their youngest age, parents naturally don't need to have more babies so that more of them would survive. Also, there isn't an emotional need to "fill the void" after the death of an infant. This is the so-called risk and mortality factor.
The second cause of fertility decline is the so-called economic-and-investment model, which means how wealthy the families are, and how capable they are of distributing resources among their children. For example, owing or not owing farmland was proved to be one of the very important factors in predicting the fertility rates in a society.
The third cause is the cultural transmission, that is, the transmission of the cultural model of small families with fewer children. This transmission happens via education. However, this conclusion is not enough; education is a bridge between the cultural transmission and economic-and-investment model, as it leads to better social and financial status.
Answer:
Ackerman presents love as being heroic, artistic, healing, calming, compassionate, annoying, uplifting, and corrupting.
Explanation:
<u>Her tone is informal.</u>
I want to go to the concert, but I'm not sure if I will be able to make it.
This one uses correct comma usage to join two independent clauses, the comma goes before the coordinating conjunction (but).
The semicolon would only be used before the coordinating conjunction if in the first clause a comma was used. But that's not the case so the answer with the semicolon is thus incorrect.
