Answer: C. Martha's lawsuit was useful to punish the corporation for failing to pay its taxes over an eight year period.
Explanation:
In this sentence we can recognize infinitive direct-object phrase - to pay.
They can be found if we can ask a question ''what'' and in this case we are asking ''Martha's lawsuit was useful to punish what'' and then we are getting the answer which is ''to punish corporation for...'' In those kind of sentences when we are looking for the object of the verb, we must try to recognize if the infinitive phrase that we have(to punish in this case, and to pay) is making sense.
In this sentence we are having a direct object.
From the definition of absolute phrases we know that it is a modifier that attaches to a sentence without a conjunctution. So, we can say "his chubby legs, pumping" is the correct answer.
The. Answer. Is. In. The. Photo. Below.
Gender, isolation, and justice. Gender because the men just gather evidence on the case while the women try to understand the pain that drove Minnie to kill her husband. Isolation because Minnie is isolated from family and friends by her abusive husband. And justice because the men and women have different ideas of the justice system
