It's A. Because a simile is a fugue of speech involving the comparison of one thing to another thing of a different kind.
When he uses the pronoun <em>them</em>, he talks about women.
He says <em>"Pygmalion had seen them, spending their lives in wickedness, and, offended by the failings that nature gave the female heart, he lived as a bachelor, without a wife or partner for his bed".</em>
And that is why he decided to create his own partner, he carved a sculpture and he fell in love with it.
He persuaded his sailors to eat the unpopular sauerkraut by setting an example when him and his officers all eating it. He also did not allow them any other option, there was not much for choices on ship and so the men had to eat it. but they greatly appreciated seeing their captain eat the sauerkraut.
Answer:
The Ministry of Transport received a petition sent by the residents against the authorities when they realized that the authorities were contracting a new motorway through the housing estate.
Explanation:
The active voice is the mostly used grammatical structure wherein the subject comes first, followed by the verb and then the object. The reverse is the case with the passive voice as the object becomes the subject of the sentence. The word order is reversed but the meaning of the sentence remains unchanged.
However, the reader might become confused with the passive voice as clarity is reduced. In the sentence above, the Ministry of Transport who were the object became the subject, and the the subject, 'residents', the object.
