It made them want to repent cause it scared them ...That was a weird read...
only teachers are allowed to have a teacher account they pay to use it. Sorry.
The error in the possessive construction is that, instead of passenger's, it should be "passengers'". The apostrophe should be after the letter "s" because the noun is in the plural form. The correct sentence would be "Passengers' concerns about cell phone use on planes are justified."
Exercise is the <span>direct object</span>
I would say the answer is D. One should never bet on anything.
But this isn't any kind of a moral to the story. This story wasn't intended to sound didactic, or to judge anyone. It is a humorous account of a man who tricks another man by wasting his time on a story about a third man who was tricked. So, it is a story about unreliability and relativity of stories and people's accounts in general. The narrator came to inquire Simon Wheeler about Leonidas Smiley, but Wheeler, having no information about him (or not being willing to give it away), takes the opportunity to talk about another Smiley, a man who liked to gamble.