<span>D.We both want to help the old people. we want to see that they do have adequate medical care.
The other three options are pieces of evidence that will help Nixon prove that the US is not standing still. They show that progress has been made in three different areas. This piece of evidence though, does not have anything to do with the forward movement of the country and does not hold any specific evidence at all, just a generic thought.
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Answer:
They failed to develop a coherent economic strategy.
A conscientious and hardworking clerk.
Years of wrangling over a controversial bypass.
I felt strangely subdued as I drove home.
Explanation:
<u>Answer:</u>
Gerund phrase in the given sentence is ‘reading about history’.
<u>Explanation:</u>
A gerund are words formed with a “verb” ending with ‘ing’ but they act as nouns. For example: swimming, reading, drinking etc can be used as “gerunds”.
A “gerund phrase” will begin with gerund and include other objects and modifiers. The entire gerund phrase acts as noun in the sentence. For example, in the sentence, “I recommend reading books at home”, gerund phrase is ‘reading books at home’.
In the given sentence, gerund phrase ‘reading about history’, begins with gerund - ‘read’+ ‘ing’. It is acting as direct object here. If you ask a question, what Caroline loves? Answer is ‘reading about history’.
