Answer:
The answer to your question would be that the version of the sentence that uses the preposition to show location is the following one: The unexpected blackout occurred near the masquerade ball.
Explanation:
The preposition showing location in the sentence above is <em>near.</em> This preposition means "not far away in distance". All the other versions of the sentence use the prepositions to give information as regards the time in which the event being referred to took place (before, during, and after).
Answer:
The speaker equate his age to late autumn.
Explanation:
This passage is taken from the famous Sonnet 73 of William Shakespeare. The main idea of this passage is based upon the changing of seasons, where the author compared his middle age to a tree of the late autumn, which is losing its leaves. He says that he cannot determine how many years he has lived, and how many years are left of his life, but he can sense that he is close to death
