Its B, Sarah will be joining us. Progressive is a verb that ends in ing.
Answer:
Gerunds and gerund phrases always function as nouns.
They can act as subjects, direct objects, indirect objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of a preposition in a sentence.
The correct answers are A) for a chance to better express themselves and B) to prove their ability.
Why Woman in colonial America want to write?
Because women wanted a chance to better express themselves and to prove their ability, that they were capable of writing about interesting things.
There is a collection of documents called the "Evans Collection," where people can find interesting publications and papers of colonial American times written by women. These documents are almanacs, cookbooks, poems, narratives, speeches, songs, and some plays.
Women in colonial times were well aware of the critical moments the 13 colonies lived under the pressure of the English monarchy, and the desire of Patriots to fight for their freedom. So this gave them the inspiration to write about these issues.
