To be a formal debate, the debate must include set rules and guidelines.
The teacher or the person who is in charge of the debate should make clear rules and guidelines about what is permitted and what is not in a debate if it is to be a formal one. It doesn't have to include strong opinions if it's a formal debate only - any type of a debate should have that. Personal attacks are not necessary for any debate, as is unlimited time to talk. However, rules and regulations are indeed important.
No, this sentence is not a verb phrase, because the subject is not part of the verb phrase here.
Here's why. The subject is "I," the verb is "believed," and everything following the verb ("every word he said") forms the object of the verb. By definition, a verb phrase is one verb + its various objects or modifiers. Here, "every word he said" operates as one single object (it's not just one word, it's EVERY word, and it's not just every word, it's every word HE said). But the subject is separate from the verb phrase, so the entire sentence is not a verb phrase (it's a subject + a verb phrase).
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Dreary
Explanation:
Bleak means charmless and inhospitable; dreary. It gives the mood that everything is very dull.
I am not completely sure, but I would say that being the last of a long line of speakers refers to temporal context. Since you are last, it means that a long time will pass since it is your turn.
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It is a stormy night. There is a chess game going on and this in itself can be suspenseful or apprehensive. Read the portion that describes the place and home that they live in. The author sets the scene and the atmosphere around the characters.
Explanation:
This story was written in the early twentieth century and it reads like a Victorian story. There is old fashioned language used and at that time the amount of money they are talking about - was a lot of money. Just reading the portions to set the scene give you a ghost story like presence. Remember too, that the use of a mystical object (supernatural sense) makes you get goosebumps.
