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4. Subject: students verb: want direct object: phones
Answer:
An action verb is a verb that expresses physical or mental action. The action verb tells us what the subject of our clause or sentence is doing-physically or mentally.
Explanation:
Your incorrect answers were 3 and 4.
For number 3, the correct answer is b. This is because not language is not necessarily oral (i.e. there are written languages).
For number 4, the correct answer is b. Although comparative linguistics is a branch of historical linguistics, comparative linguistics is specifically concerned with comparing the linguistics of one person/place from the next.