The sentence "Fustian writing is where you write pompous, bombastic nonsense." is illogical for the following reasons:
1. Fustian, like the sentence implies, means pretentious speech or writing.
2. Fustian writing does not refer to a place.
3. The word <em>where </em>is used to refer to a place.
4. Using the word <em>where </em>implies that<em> fustian writing</em> is a place, which is wrong.
Therefore, one can correct the sentence and say this instead: Fustian writing is when you write pompous, bombastic nonsense.
The correct answer would be the fourth option: My Uncle Bill has such a beautiful voice; many couples have asked him to sing at their wedding.
You have to understand positive, comparative, and superlative forms of adjectives to do this. The positive form is the simple form of an adjective as applied to the sentence. The comparative form refers to the form of an adjective that relates it to other possible intensities of the adjective; it it used to say to what extent an adjective applies. The superlative form states the adjective in the most prominent extent. Alright, now let's look at the answers.
Answer A is incorrect because it should be "cheap, cheaper, and cheapest."
Answer B is incorrect because it should be "drowsy, drowsier, and drowsiest."
Answer C is correct.
Answer D is incorrect because is should be "troublesome, more troublesome, and most troublesome."
Answer: C. good, better, best
Hope this helps!
Answer:
C. Her lips were as red as roses in the spring.
Explanation: Figurative language is phrasing that goes beyond the literal meaning of words to get a message or point across. Clearly, her lips were not red roses, but the author uses figurative language to bring an image into the mind of the reader. Hope this helps!
Transcendentalism was a philosophical movement that was developing by the late 1820s and '30s in the Eastern region of the United States as a protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality. The doctrine of the Unitarian church as taught at Harvard Divinity School was of particular concern.
