act 1 scene 2
Try to find a new girl and you will forget the old one
Answer:
North Richmond Street, <u>being blind</u>, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
Explanation:
A participial phrase is a group of words that consists of a participle, its modifiers, and any objects that complete that thought.
Participles are words derived from verbs that can function as adjectives or parts of verb phrases. There are two types of participles:
- Past participles - they usually end in -ed (for regular verbs), and less often in -en, -t, -d, and -n (irregular verbs). Example:<em> bake - baked</em>.
- Present participles - they end in -ing. Example: bake - baking.
In the first sentence of the given excerpt, we have one participial phrase: <em>being blind</em>. It consists of the present participle <em>being</em> and a modifier <em>blind</em>.
C. It makes the skull sound like a toy ball, adding to the grandfathers casual view of the deaths caused by the battle.
A is not correct because if it was unavoidable, he would have said something different to describe the forgotten skull.
B. Is not correct because if it brought sad memories, he would not have brought it up, sad memories hurt.
D is not correct because he would have described much worse if he wanted to frighten the children
Teenager and young adult are you answers
Answer:
Tolkien mastered Latin and Greek. Then in college at oxford he majored in philology; the study of languages.
Explanation:
J.R.R Tolkien loved languages, his mother Mable Tolkien paid for his tuition to attend king Edward school in Birmingham, England when they returned to England from South Africa. Tolkien had great interest in languages, He mastered Latin and Greek and was also developing his own language.
After his mother Mabel passed away October 15, 1904, life was hard on Tolkien and his brother. The father Francis Morgan became their guardian.
Tolkien looked towards college, then was first rejected at oxford but was later accepted, where he majored in philology;the study of languages. At oxford, he read classic literature, Gothic, old English, welsh and Finnish.
Tolkien proposed to Edith in 1916 while still studying in oxford. he soon received his first class degree in philology.
