An adjective phrase connects to a noun
An adverb phrase connects to a verb.
  
1. at soccer. 
Adjective Phrase : at what? 
soccer is a noun
So I THINK it's an adjective phrase.
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
A person has a right to their own happiness, Simon thought. When he told this to his bosses Brenda and Nichole though, they both laughed and told him to get back to work.
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The <em>Critical Period</em> affects language acquisition of a target language.
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Jacqueline Johnson and Elissa Newport put out a study entitled : <em>Critical Period Effects in Second Language Learning: The Influence of Maturation State in the Acquisition of English as a Second Language</em>. Here, they point out how the age affects the language acquisition of Chinese and Korean English Language Learners. The younger the language learners are, the more adept they are in acquiring the target language. The study included acquisition of English grammar knowledge. 
 
        
             
        
        
        
The correct answer is D. The lack of punctuation. It makes the poem sound as if it were a single, swift, concise, and laconic sentence. It also give the poem a conversational tone, depriving it of artificiality that was a characteristic of the pre-20th-century poetry. Punctuation would fragmentise the poem and induce its flow with pauses.
        
                    
             
        
        
        
It is true because the symbol can be either explicit and obvious or hidden and implicit