Answer: B) what is said about the subject or what the subject does.
Explanation: a predicate is the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (the person or thing that is performing the action of the verb). Fromt the given options, the one that correctly represents the definition of predicate, is the corresponding to option B: the predicate of a sentence is what is said about the subject or what the subject does.
B.When
the boy taunts John, it shows that the boy is jealous of John’s
intelligence.
In this excerpt, John portrayed that his intelligence and
smarts overpowers the basic drives of the boy to poor sex and intimidation.
Because of this, the boy acts on to John taunting him to feel stronger .
The answer is: D. Huck believes that many people cannot be totally trusted.
In the excerpt from Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the protagonist realizes the king and the duke are rascals and not actual royalty, and suggests that all kings are villains. For example, he later mentions how Henry VIII married a lot of women and had their heads chopped off.
A. <span><span>I'd love to stay and talk, but—yikes! I'm really late now.
</span>This is the correct answer. The dash here is used properly because it shows the break in thought, and it changes the tone of the speaker. That is one use of dashes.
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B. </span></span><span>Today we studied a poem, did an experiment, and multiplied fractions. (The sentence doesn't need the dash.)
C. </span><span>The coat—one of the most colorful that I've seen--seemed to be made of string. (It needs another dash after seen.)
</span>D. <span>There on the stage was my sister! (Does not need the dash.)</span><span>
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