The semicolon is used in the text above, to cause an intermediate effect between the comma and the period. In this case, when he used a semicolon the author was indicating to the reader that it was necessary to pause, in reading, longer than the pause of a comma, but less long than the pause of a point. This is done because the sentence displays a partially complete thought, but it will present more arguments to be finalized.
In a more simplified way, we can say that the use of a semicolon in the text above was made to separate long coordinated sentences with the same syntactic function.
B. He turns up its nest with the plow.
In this passage the speaker says you, the mouse, saw the empty fields and with winter coming decided to make a home in them underneath the cold winds. Then crash! The plow blade cut through your house. In this passage the speaker is plowing his field to get it ready to lay fallow for winter when he turns out the mouse from it's house.
A: Subject: We
Predicate: are working
B: Subject: Tanya
Predicate: is
C. Sub: Mashruf
Pred.: dreamt
D. S: Ismael
Pred: ran
E. S: We
Pred: are
F. S: postman
Pred: is picking
G. S: grandparents
Pred: are having
*Recall that helping verbs are part of the verb too!
*Hopefully that helps you understand! Good luck to you!
Answer:
D. constant dusk
Explanation:
According to a different source, this is the passage and the options that come with this question:
In the distant past, the Philippines was populated by a race of fairies who were unaffected by unpredictable weather. They minded neither sweltering heat nor freezing cold. They did not divide the day by hours of light and darkness. In fact, they lived in a constant dim twilight and never gave it any thought.
A. moderate temperatures
B. constant darkness
C. moderate sunlight
D. constant dusk
The setting of a story refers to the time and place in which the story takes place. In this case, we are told that the "race of fairies" in the story did not care about light or darkness, and that they lived in a "constant dim twilight." The best association we can make to this is that the fairies lived in constant dusk. Dusk refers to the darkest stage of twilight which occurs after sunset and just before night.
THE STRANGER fills the frogs belly with quail shot.
The title of the book is 'The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county'.
Smiley bet with a stranger that his frog can beat any other frog and the stranger agreed to go into competition with him. Smiley lost the competition, because unknown to him the stranger has filled his frog with quail shot when he went to the stream to catch a frog for the stranger.
