The complete predicate in this sentence is A. mopped his brow, exhaled sharply, and picked up his phone.
B and C aren't correct, because they aren't complete predicates - something is missing.
D isn't correct, because <em>looking up from his computer monitor </em>is not a predicate, it is an adverb phrase.
Answer:
Explanation:
Right Pane.
We are back to Ivan. We found out how he felt about getting married. He was not thrilled, he was not head over heals. He was ... accepting. He was cold blooded like a reptile. He weighed carefully what he thought were her virtues.
- She was passable good looking.
- She had property, and he hoped income.
- She was acceptable to the society he lived in.
- What's not to like? So he married.
The third one is not a big consideration, but it is a consideration. The fact that she was proper added to what he thought of her.
So what to pick?
The last three are not mentioned. So they are not a consideration. He doesn't say, for example, that he yearns for company.
Is there a comment in there about the middle class? Not even inferred. So B is incorrect.
Though it is a minor consideration, A has to be your answer.
Center Pane
Terror, aborrance, decay, suggestive shadows. All these things are present. But he is also thrilled by them. Complex man. He appeals to us for the same reason some people go to horror movies just to be scared out of their minds.
I'd pick B but you could defend at least 3 of them.
Left Pane
I'd pick the first and the last.
You haven't got time to do much else. Certainly the 3rd one is out of the question. I don't think you should be doing the fourth one. Let your essay do that for you. And the second one is almost irrelevant at this point.
First and last.
Penelope basically tells the suitors that the man who can string the bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axe heads will win her hand and marriage. So disguised as a beggar Odysseus successfully strings the bow and grabs an arrow and shoots it straight through 12 axe heads. Eventually he makes his way back to Penelope but she isn’t convinced is really him. So she tells him that he can sleep outside her room on the bed on the bed that Odysseus carved. Oddysseus snapped and asked her who moved the his bed that was carved straight from the roots of a olive tree that the room was built around. Penelope knew that only he would have known about the bed so she instantly knew it was him.
