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To sum up the general rules on pronouns that refer to groups: Collective nouns performing one action as a unit take singular verbs and pair with singular pronouns. Possessive pronouns referring to collective nouns are singular if the item possessed belongs to the entire group.
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The answer is option ‘c’. The author portrays Demeter’s reaction as thoughtful and restrained.
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Rita Dove, an accomplished poet, uses the Greek myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. In the myth, Persephone is abducted by the Hades, the King of the underworld. Demeter displays a dereliction in duties, overcome by sorrow and anger. So, the crops fail. Zeus pleads with hades to return Persephone. He agrees but on the condition that she would return to the underworld for a part annually. This resulted in fall and winter every year – the time Persephone spent in the underworld.
Summer and spring was the time when she would return to the earth to be with her mother. This myth explained the cycle of seasons. She expands the myth placing it in the in the modern world in individual manifestations portraying the anxiousness of the mother full of the same anxieties .She is thoughtful but now understands that she has lost her daughter to a stranger with whom the daughter has fallen in love.
Answer: Paragraph 17 is both the conclusion of the article and the conclusion of Douglass's life.
Explanation: The paragraph refers to his attendance at the meeting of the National Council of Women, affirming his commitment to the women's rights movement mentioned in paragraph 10. The final paragraph tells how Douglass died, and summarizes the overall content of the bibliography: how he was "a central figure in the fight for equality and justice for his entire life."
