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Answer:water
Explanation:water is good
The falling action in this story by Jack London occurs in the last few paragraphs, after the man already surrenders and knows he is going to die. Because he knows he is going to die in any case he decides to at least die with and behave with dignity. Falling action refers to the part of the story after the climax and the resolution of the main conflict.
"Juanitas good driving prevented an accident." I think ..... verb is "to prevent" as you say. accident could be a noun and thus an object, possibly a direct object. verb "to drive" written as "driving" is, I think, a gerund (which is a verb used as a noun). maybe "helping verb" and "gerund" are similar ? I think that "an" is an article of the noun "accident". Definite would be "The accident.". Indefinite would be "an accident". I think....
The last two options don't contain the same amount of information. You don't know how many pets ran away or how many were caught again. So you can eliminate those two options right away.
So, you are choosing between the first 2. The first option is wordy. You can see that they repeat the word "them" twice in the last sentence, which is unnecessary.
The 2nd option manages to convey the same amount of information as the original sentence, but in one sentence and without unnecessary repetition of words.