Answer: a sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs.
Explanation:
<span>This is a story about a young boy who is being driven to a cliff at an unspecified location on the California coastline. The driver interrogates the boy en route, suspicious of his experience with women, how well he has memorized the old man's instructions, his moral, spiritual, and emotional purity, and his impatience to get started with the initiation into what the old man calls “the spells.” </span>
Answer:critical listening
Explanation:Critical listening is a type of listening in which you listen with an intent to evaluate the content.
This means a critical listener will consider all part of the content ,analyze and evaluate what they have heard.
Blake himself has to engage in critical thinking so that he can make an effective judgement based on what he hears.
The gerund ends in -ing and functions as a noun. The infinitive is the base form of a verb with to. A participle is a verb that ends in -ing (present participle) or -ed, -d, -t, -en, -n (past participle). Participles may function as adjectives, describing or modifying nouns. Therefore i'd say it would be participle