The topic Ivan Ilyich thinking about in this excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich is that there are two kinds of life: the artificial life and the authentic life. Artificial life is represented by Ivan, Peter, Praskovya and almost all the people in the society of Ivan - it is marked by shallow relationships and materialism. Authentic life is represented by Gerasim.
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"the person or thing carrying out the action"
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In English grammar, a subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence. (The other main part is the predicate.) ... The subject usually appears before the predicate to show (a) what the sentence is about, or (b) who or what performs the action. As shown below, the subject is commonly a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase
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The answer to question 1 is: B
The answer to question 2 is: B
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