The word that BEST describes Douglass's diction in this excerpt is
A. formal
"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying" because when someone asks you how you are, you politely reply 'I'm doing good/well' even if your not - a lie. :)
Answer:
Explanation:
We are to match each phrase to the correct section , either as a noun phrase or a verb phrase.
Let's first have an understanding of what a noun phrase and a verb phrase is all about ; To start with, A noun phrase is a word or a group of word performing the role of a noun(i.e a grammatical function) either as a subject, object or complement of the sentence.
A verb phrase comprise of a verb in a group of words which can be a subject, predicate or modifiers. A verb phrase must consist of at least a verb in the sentence and its dependents.
So, let's have a table for that ;
Noun Phrase Verb Phrase
i had been watching it going dancing tonight
the little blue bird
will go shopping
a sweet, sad smile
changing "it's" to "it is"
