Answer:
stop oneself from doing something.
soooo, maybe to stop themselves?
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Answer:
from the above extract , the following format represent correctly ::
The Harry Potter books are so entertaining because they paint a picture of a world in which we all want to live. We all long to find that extraordinary secret that will reveal our own special quality. Like little infant Potter waiting outside his aunt and uncle's house , it's just a matter of time until we find that we are, after all, special.
in the first novel, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers stone, the little 11 year old Harry don't know that his parents are wizards and he's also a wizard also his aunt and uncle don't let him know that he's a wizard until he was 12 , in the night of his birthday, Hagrid come to him to drop to Hogwarts where he find that he's the only boy Who lived from the cursed of the devil wizard "Voldemort".
this is my favorite novel and web series also..
The gerund in this sentence must be "talking" as gerunds end with -ing, and this is the only dog in the sentence that ends with -ing.
It's an object of a verb (the verb is stop)- it's what the verb directs the action to - so it's the direct object (answer D).