<span>D. But we had not traveled fifty miles down the stream before we found the water gradually becoming brackish and discolored from the salt and</span>
The action of the story concludes and the conflict is solved.
The phrase, "quite leisurely", culled from the poem Musee des Beaux-Arts by W. H. Auden connects to the scene depicted in the poem in that: It reinforces that no one is alarmed by Icarus's drowning.
In this poem, we find the author's description of how the plowman turns away "quite leisurely" as Icarus falls to the ground.
He may have heard the forsaken cry of the boy but he continues on his activity.
So, this shows that no one is alarmed by the fall of Icarus.
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The gerund phrases are:
- "Being the accounts manager" (Subject)
- "blowing bubbles to his little sister" (Subjet Complement)
Gerund phrases begin with a gerund or -ing word, and include other modifiers and objects. They function as nouns, and can be the subject, subject complement or direct object of the sentence.
The rest of the alternatives are not gerund phrases because options one and three possess an infinitive verb ("to bring" and "to win"), and "Hiking for two hours" is a present participle clause.
