The answer is A. present tense
Answer: b. He is moody
Based on the excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe's <em>The Gold-Bug, </em>it can be clearly concluded that William Legrand is a moody person. He is far from being stable because he changes mood from one to another.
The implicit meaning in the line "now I'm someone who watches tractor pulls on obscure cable channels" is that, though an Indian immigrant, in some ways she feels very integrated into American society. The main contextual clue in the line is "tractor pulls" because tractor pulling is a kind of competition that one would not think is popular in India, but it is kind of motorsport competition that is popular in the United States. The fact that the speaker is watching this competitions on cable channels lets the reader know that she has adopted some american cultural customs.
D because they both have something to do with an age group
The gerund phrase in the given sentence would be: Training show dogs. This gerund phrase is used as the direct object. The answer is option B. A gerund is a word that ends in -ing, but functions as a noun. A gerund phrase consists of the gerund plus other words that modifies.
