Answer: An essay or paper should be organized logically, flow smoothly, and "stick" together. In other words, everything in the writing should make sense to a reader. A paper should be written in generally correct standard English, with complete sentences, and be relatively error-free.
Explanation:
Breathing in the first sentence is a participle acting as an adjective.
The second sentence is an auxiliary verb. is and breathing make up the verb.
Breathing is ... go no further. Breathing is the subject of the third sentence. It can only be a noun or a pronoun when it is a subject. So here it is a gerund.
Similes use "like" or "as" to compare stuff
so the answer is B
F. Scott Fitzgerald struggled with addiction for most of his life. When he matriculated in Princeton in 1916, he had already been struggling with alcohol for a while. His problem increased with each passing year. He had many traits that we nowadays associate with addiction, such as reckless behaviour, excessive risk taking and several emotional problems. Between 1933 and 1937, he was hospitalized for alcoholism eight times. This made him unable to deal with the emotional problems that Zelda's illness brought (she was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1930). The combination of the illness and the alcoholism, enhanced by the fact that neither one could make significant progress on their artistic careers, led to their estrangement and to Scott's death.
