Answer:
' Miss Watson claims to live her life well so she can go to heaven. The irony is that, despite her claims of goodness, she owns slaves. She even plans to sell Jim down the river, away from his family, though she has always promised him she never would.
Explanation:
The correct answer is the second option - <span>to occur unexpectedly and have destructive or harmful effects.
</span>Here, the word struck is just a past form of the verb to strike, meaning to happen unexpectedly and have dire consequences, like an earthquake can hit California, in this case. The final definition is a noun, and does not fit in the context of the original sentence.
Answer:
The phrase between brackets is a <em><u>gerund phrase</u></em>.
Explanation:
A gerund is a verb form that can function as a noun in a sentence. It is the '-ing' form of the verb that identifies as a noun.
A gerund phrase is a group of words that starts with a gerund and contains modifiers, nouns, or pronouns that acts as a direct object or can act as the subject in the sentence.
In the given sentence, the words in the brackets is a gerund phrase. It starts with the '-ing' form of the verb.
