Explanation: The legislative branch may check the executive branch by passing laws over the veto by a two-thirds vote in each house.
The main difference is that literature's purpose is not just to make you forget from your everyday problems and have fun. Quite the opposite, good literature can often make you ponder life struggles even more.
In the sentence, it is always fun to watch them play, the complete predicate here is the phrase, “is always fun to watch them play”. Predicate is defined as the word or phrase in the sentence containing the verb and stating something about the subject.
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My response would be:
The reader learns that the ice is very thin. They know this because in the phrase "It was early winter and the ice on the lake wasn’t thick enough to support the sled and team or I would have gone across the middle." It clearly states the ice wasn't thick enough to go across the lake. This prepares the reader for what happens in the story by foreshadowing the ice cracking later on in the story.
(I don't know if the ice will crack later on in the story though)