B. The use of words such as "planetary" and "potential" helps establish a formal style.
Answer:
drawing inferences
Explanation:
To infer means to <em>deduce</em>, i.e. to arrive at a conclusion by reasoning. An inference is an educated guess based on some information. Therefore, when a reader uses word choice, patterns of events, and other clues to determine meaning, it is called drawing inferences.
The order of how the story was written
Answer:
D. A runner trains four days a week for a year, improving her speed and stamina.
Explanation:
An appositive phrase is a phrase that "re-states" the subject (or another noun phrase), that is gives a new name or a new description.
Here the subject is "her uncle" and the new way of describing the uncle is "<span>the man over there in the red shirt</span>", which is also the appositive phrase.
The correct answer here is d. the man over there in the red shirt
