Answer:
<u>A gerund</u>
Explanation:
A gerund is a word that looks like a verb but that does not act as one, and that, instead, acts as a noun in a sentence. It is formed with a verb root plus the ending “ing,” like “winning” and “thinking.” The sentence provided contains a gerund, namely, “acting” which in this case functions as a predicate noun, completing the linking verb “be” and renaming the noun “his major.”
The answer is B: Less than a decade ago, the HSUS...an affiliate [Human Society International].
Brackets are used to give the writers (when they need to add information) an opportunity to add an explanation, or emphasis to a word, or change a <em>quote to fit to a sentence, but without changing the meaning of the text</em>. In A) <em>global work</em> doesn't need explanation; C) <em>decade</em> doesn't need explanation; D) <em>HSUS</em> was already explained in the first sentence of the text.
The first four stanzas discuss the development of the relationship between the River Merchant and his wife. The first discusses when they were in the their childhood. The next discusses her marriage, followed by the maturing of the girl into a woman and the last of the four, talks about the longing or missing of the woman for her husband.
Temperance societies worked to A) eliminate the consumption of alcohol.
Answer:
<u>D. The economy or the weather can make a small town fall apart.</u>
Explanation:
A compound subject is a subject consisting of two or more nouns. When a sentence has a compound subject, the nouns are often joined by a comma or by coordinating conjunction like <em>or, nor, and </em>or<em> neither</em>. In sentence D, "The economy or the weather" is a compound subject because both nouns act as subjects (They perfom the main action), and they are joined by "or."
