Answer:
The word "protracted" means lasting longer than expected, or unusually long, so what protracted most clearly means based on the context of the excerpt is how the time period of celestial motion studies must have lasted unusually long.
I would guess it would be the first one since rather than relying on just how she thinks it will be she actually goes out and tests it to be sure
Fav movie is Fight Club because it is a really action packed interesting movie
The correct statement is option B) “some words that are usually nouns can function as adjectives”. Sometimes nouns can function as adjectives depending on their placement within the sentence
Option A is incorrect since adjectives cannot modify adverbs.
Option C is also incorrect since an adjective only modifies nouns
Option D is also incorrect since adverbs do not modify nouns. Adverbs modify an adjective, a verb, a clause, and another adverb.
