I believe the answer is: A.) he wants them to fight for liberty
Through his writing, paine described how the British government has unfairly treated the colonists by imposing more tax rate that the colonist could afford to. His purpose is to gain support so many more people want to join the revolutionary army for the fight of liberty.
Instructs his Gardener to not drain the pool.
Nobody knows as we haven’t been there...sorry
The answer is:
The animals <em><u>scrambled </u></em>to get into the barn as the lightning <em><u>struck</u></em>.
In the chosen sentence, both verbs in the different clauses are consistent ad accurate because they are written in the Past Simple tense.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the tense of the verbs is not related to each other: they wrongly combine past and present, and present and future tenses.
The right version of them are the following:
<em>Alexander </em><em>finished </em><em>his math test and </em><em>walked </em><em>to Mr. Smith's desk.
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Sampson and Raina </em><em>watch </em><em>the fireworks and </em><em>comment </em><em>on how beautiful they are.
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The police officer </em><em>rounded </em><em>the corner and pumped his arms harder.</em>
If korbet is the author:
In this scene Korbet was probably nervous to give his crush Tabby a letter. When Korbet gave his letter to his crush Tabby, She crumpled up his paper (possibly mad at him) and called him a “lugnut”. The author used this scene to show others how he possibly got rejected.