Answer: B) "To think of your having such a tragedy in your life!"
Explanation: an irony is a statement or a situation that seems contradictory or different of what the reader or the characters expect. It is often used to criticize something or to introduce a humorous element in the text. In the given excerpt from "Editha" by William Dean Howell, the expression "to think of your having such a tragedy in your life" is an example of the use of an ironic tone, because the woman doesn't really think that war is a tragedy.
Answer:
The Northern states opposed slavery.
Explanation:
"for it was inevitable that the North, when once aroused, would bitterly resent such pro-slavery demands"
Miss Scatcherd had who a list of sundry complaints about Helen Burns. She teaches English and History at Lowood school and this is the place where Helen Burns schools.
Miss Scatcherd used to hit Helen because her fingernails are dirty and Helen could not clean them because the water was frozen
Some classes which she used to teach, students used to stand around her chair while they are reading.
Miss Scatcherd used to teach English. Despite the students' disrespect she used to continue with her object of constant notice.
Given sentence: Some people fast for a period of time after Mardi Gras. In this, ‘people’ is the simple subject.
Answer: Option A
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A sentence consists of a subject and a verb, out of which the subject tends to define the area of focus in a sentence. When a simple noun is present in a subject, there is a noun which can add more meaning into the sentence when added and by doing so the noun is more focused.
Here people defined the as noun, the area of focus in a sentence. Fast is the verb to which there is more meaning added to the sentence. Without any subject, one cannot find a complete sentences.
