Answer:
To provide details about the story's setting.
Explanation:
'A Girl Named Zippy' is a memoir of Haven Kimmel. This account of the author describes about her childhood spent in Mooreland in Indiana.
In the given excerpt, Kimmel is describing the setting of her story. The setting of the place where she lived and spent her childhood.
<u>The setting describes the serenity of the small town of Indiana, Mooreland and also to suggest how small her town was.</u>
So, the correct answer is that the author is describing the plot of the story in the given excerpt. Thus option D (last option) is correct.
In this sentence, there are 3 verbs if we count Writing to be a verb. It is a gerund that functions as a noun, but is technically still a verb. Can and Learn are also verbs, so the correct answer should be 3.
Answer:
Proceed (forward & go = to go forward) + ed (simple past tense) = Proceeded
Explanation:
The mentioned word was created from the two Latin words mentioned above which were firstly used in the French language as the word procederer. The word procederer comes from Latin language and it is the mixture of the “CEDERE-GO” and the prefix “PRO-FORWARD”.
It was only in the Middle-Ages that the English society had started using this particular word in the form PROCEED which has several meanings in English Language today:
To proceed = to continue doing something
To proceed = to go forward with your plans or actions
You may proceed = the most common way in terms of politeness to say to someone that he or she can continue with his/her work, intentions or other actions
In your question, the mentioned word is in the simple past tense (+ed)
Examples of Proceed + ed:
- They proceeded with their plans.
- We proceeded to the exit.
Answer:
Inform --> Turning ... sleep
persuade--> All ... writing
narrate--> The ... old
Explanation:
Hope this helped!
Virgil
Shakespeare
Hesiod
Dante
Marlowe
from oldest to newest Hesiod, Virgil, Dante, Marlowe, and Shakespeare (Im not sure about Marlowe and Shakespeare, they came around the same time, but Marlowe died before Shakespeare)