Ate the insects I believe is the simple predicate in the sentence.
1. word
2.midterm
3. shirt
4.return
5.nerve
6.stern
7. spurts
8.verse
9.thirst
10.swerve
11.work
12.squirm
13.spur
14.squirt
15.lurk
16.surf
17.learning
18.blurt
19.yearns
20.lurch
"Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid" is an example of <em>D. personification.</em>
Personification is a literary device in which animals, objects or ideas are given human attributes. In this case, sorrow is given the ability to knock at someone's door, but as we know it is only a figure of speech because sorrow cannot knock at the door.
Answer:
The student picked <em><u>his or her</u></em> own backpack and ran to math class.
Explanation:
Pronouns are those words that we use to replace nouns. This is to avoid the repetition of the nouns and to make the sentence smoother and easier to understand.
In the given sentence, the main subject is "the student". Now, we cannot know what is the gender of the student but it is understood that it will be either he/ she, which makes the required pronoun include both genders. And on that note, the pronoun for the 'student' will be used in the possessive determiners (his/ her) instead of the personal pronoun (he/she) forms.
Thus, the correct answer will be "his or her".
