Women were strong competitors.
Some people thought that it was "disgusting and degrading" for women cyclists to compete.
Women worked to break each other's records in cycling.
A sensory details is use by the writer to connects the reader's five senses (sight, sound, smell, taste and touch) to an image or a description. The writer gives an image of ears with gray hair. From that image, the writer show us an estimated age of the character he's referring.
Sorry for such late an answer, but I believe its A) Predicate Nominative.
Answer: Sentence 4
Explanation:
The sentence that clarifies meaning of
<em>They brought home a baby sister for their son named Julia</em> is :<em>They brought home a baby named Julia, who was the sister of her brother.
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The sentence is a bit confusing because the reduced relative or adjectival clause, named Julia, is separated from its anticident, sister ,by the prepositional phrase, for their son.