Welcome to everyone! Todays theme of our show is sound. Yes sound, which plays such an essential role in our lives, without us even noticing that. Yes today we will discuss the importance of sound in our lives.
The townspeople launched the boat into the rough waters.
The direct object in the sentence is THE BOAT.
Direct object is recipient of the action or verb.
Subject + Verb + Direct Object (answers the question What? or Who?)
Subject : Townspeople
Verb: launched
The townspeople launched WHAT? The boat.
Answer:
Strict, rigid, rigorous, stringent imply inflexibility, severity, and an exacting quality. Strict implies great exactness, especially in the observance or enforcement of rules: strict discipline.
The answer is D for this question
It seems that you missed the given choices of the question above which are the following:
A. the past is not something we can talk about.
B. there are no words to convey the pain of the past.
C. The battle of the sexes will go on forever.<span>
D. Men’s and women’s roles are deeply rooted in our species.
Anyway, the correct answer for the given question above would be option D. When the </span><span>author says in lines 40–41 that “I'm convinced the past, we must contend with is deeper even than speech,” he means that </span>Men’s and women’s roles are deeply rooted in our species. Hope this answer helps.