Answer:
establishing a colony based on religious principles.
Explanation:
Puritans were a very religious society and had all their constituents, concepts, traditions, activities and skills focused on religion and the worship of the Christian God. As they were persecuted and prevented from establishing the religious principles that they defended in England, they decided to immigrate to America, where they would establish a Puritan colony totally focused on religious principles, where they could usurp them without suffering persecution and reprisals.
Answer:
washing dishes
Explanation:
The gerund phrase in this sentence is <u><em>washing dishes</em></u> and it is used as a <u><em>predicate nominative</em></u>. The subject in this sentences is job, the verb is a conjugation of to be (is), and the gerund phrase washing dishes is playing the role of the object of the sentence.
Gerund phrases frequently serve as predicate nominatives and do not have to come at the end of the sentence. Another example would be:
Making noodles from scratch is my hobby.
Subject: hobby
Verb: is
Predicate Nominative (object): Making noodles from scratch
Answer:
Both Calvin and Hobbes in this comic are living intensely, however it suggests that the narrative values about their life are subjective. Calvin prefers the intensity and actually would like more in his life while Hobbes’s idea of intensity has reached a maximum and he would prefer to tone it down.
Explanation:
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. - Chapter 12.
In this case, the author used semicolons because, altought there is not any conjunctive adverb or coordinating conjunction, there is a preposition, which in this case is "without", that is linking two closely connected main clauses. There are 2 clauses, independent syntactically, but very close semantically. The author is giving us two different perspectives; however, they both has a deep relationship: having or not having someone. Finally, it is worth clarifying that, prepositions are used to establish a relationship between 2 clauses, like in this situation, for example.
