The story opens with the description of a riverbed in rural California, a beautiful, wooded area at the base of “golden foothill slopes.” A path runs to the river, used by boys going swimming and riffraff coming down from the highway. Two men walk along the path. The first, George, is small, wiry, and sharp-featured, while his companion, Lennie, is large and awkward. They are both dressed in denim, farmhand attire.
As they reach a clearing, Lennie stops to drink from the river, and George warns him not to drink too much or he will get sick, as he did the night before. As their conversation continues, it becomes clear that the larger man has a mild mental disability, and that his companion looks out for his safety. George begins to complain about the bus driver who dropped them off a long way from their intended destination—a ranch on which they are due to begin work. Lennie interrupts him to ask where they are going. His companion impatiently reminds him of their movements over the past few days, and then notices that Lennie is holding a dead mouse. George takes it away from him. Lennie insists that he is not responsible for killing the mouse, that he just wanted to pet it, but George loses his temper and throws it across the stream. George warns Lennie that they are going to work on a ranch, and that he must behave himself when they meet the boss. George does not want any trouble of the kind they encountered in Weed, the last place they worked.
George decides that they will stay in the clearing for the night, and as they prepare their bean supper, Lennie crosses the stream and recovers the mouse, only to have George find him out immediately and take the mouse away again. Apparently, Lennie’s Aunt Clara used to give him mice to pet, but he tends to “break” small creatures unintentionally when he shows his affection for them, killing them because he doesn’t know his own strength. As the two men sit down to eat, Lennie asks for ketchup. This request launches George into a long speech about Lennie’s ungratefulness. George complains that he could get along much better if he didn’t have to care for Lennie. He uses the incident that got them chased out of Weed as a case in point. Lennie, a lover of soft things, stroked the fabric of a girl’s dress, and would not let go. The locals assumed he assaulted her, and ran them out of town.
Answer: D)The wilderness surrounded the jar and seemed no longer wild in the presence of the tall, round jar that was like a port.
Explanation: Paraphrase a text or a sentence consists in expressing the meaning of the text (that can be written or spoken) using different words, it usually has the function to explain the text with clearer vocabulary. The sentence that best paraphrase the second stanza of Wallace Stevens's "The Anecdote of the Jar" is the option D, because it maintains the same idea, just written in a simpler way.
Can you give the possible answers (a,b,c,etc.)
Answer:
Tense.
Explanation:
A tense is a grammatical indication of when a verb happens/ occurs. It categorizes the time, the duration, the completeness, or the continuation of any act that is done.
In grammar, there are three primary categories of tenses- past tense, present tense, and future tense. And according to what tense is used in a sentence, the time can easily be known or understood.
For example, the sentence "I went home late last night" is in the past tense as the tense form of "went" is the past tense of "go".
Similarly, "I will be going home" signifies a future tense as the sentence uses "will+be+-ing" form of the verb.
A. I do believe, it shows a main objective in the passage
