In understanding the central idea or the main idea of a particular passage. You must take out the hard terms and look for their meanings. It is one way of understanding at the same time learning with the passage. It is also advisable to stay focus on what you are reading to easily understand it.
D. The boat was too far away for the Coast Guard to reach the child.
Answer:
North Richmond Street, <u>being blind</u>, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
Explanation:
A participial phrase is a group of words that consists of a participle, its modifiers, and any objects that complete that thought.
Participles are words derived from verbs that can function as adjectives or parts of verb phrases. There are two types of participles:
- Past participles - they usually end in -ed (for regular verbs), and less often in -en, -t, -d, and -n (irregular verbs). Example:<em> bake - baked</em>.
- Present participles - they end in -ing. Example: bake - baking.
In the first sentence of the given excerpt, we have one participial phrase: <em>being blind</em>. It consists of the present participle <em>being</em> and a modifier <em>blind</em>.
The answer should be B.
Credibility is important for obvious reasons. Who's going to trust a site that just gets their information from the ether?
Rhetorical questions can make the individuals in an audience feel like they are going through unnecessary pain, which would make them more likely to get the product being advertised.
Logos are... a bit complicated. You can just look that one up.
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