I think the correct answer would be:
<span>B: The poor, plague-ridden, residential areas of the town were shut off from the rest of the world.</span>
<span>The total number of participants was tallied up by the volunteers. </span>
<span>Descriptive </span><span>adjectives name a quality of a person, place, thing, or idea.
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Answer: no it’s not
Explanation: them is an objective case, not a possessive pronoun.
Since the sentences are not provided in this question a probable answer will serve to address. "Initiation" is defined as the start or the beginning of something, a commencement of a certain action/behavior. Moreover, initiation here could mean of something that will assess the ability or capacity of the individual before becoming a member of a peer group or certain community.
