Answer:
It might be about the cultural and societal status of different people.
Explanation:
If you think about the phrase, "Pearls before swine" it is suggesting that a pig would find pearls useless. 'Of Mice and Men' could be implementing the rank, so to speak, of others, comparing one class of people as 'mice' and the other as 'men'. The novel could be comparing and contrasting these to levels of people or things, therefore, making it about societal status.
Economical. This has the most positive connotation out of all of the options listed here.
"Inferior" implies that the quality is lesser than other potential materials that could have been used.
"Second-rate" and "Sub-standard" also imply the same message.
"Economical" has the most positive connotation, because it implies that the materials are monetarily cheap but does not really imply anything about the QUALITY of the cheap material.
Answer:
Two sentences use "eating" as a participle:
B. My eating habits are a lot healthier than they used to be.
D. This problem has been eating away at me, and I can't sleep.
Explanation:
The gerund and the present participle are identical to the eye. They both are formed by adding -ing to a verb root. Thus, "eating" can be a gerund or a participle, according to the context.
The difference between them is quite simple. The gerund acts like a noun, having the same functions a noun would have in a sentence: subject, object of a verb or of a preposition, and subject complement. The present participle, on the other hand, will either act as an adjective, modifying a noun or a pronoun, or be a part of a continuous tense.
That is precisely what we have in options B and D. In option B, "eating" is an adjective modifying the noun "habits". In letter D, "eating" is a part of the Present Perfect Continuous tense. Therefore, in options B and D, "eating" is a participle:
B. My eating habits are a lot healthier than they used to be.
D. This problem has been eating away at me, and I can't sleep.
B. Jim is revealing to Huck that most people are not what they seem.
I think, I am sorry if I am wrong ;/
