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2. Anna asked Jane who had given her the ring
3. My mother told me not to put my elbows on the table
4. She asked where the nearest post office was
5. He asked if I had ever played polo
6. She said she did not want to got to the party because she hated those people
7. She is very stubborn and therefore never listens to her mother's advice
8. He told me to sit down and tell him all I knew on the matter
9. She informed us that despite being unable to speak French, she was fluent in Spanish
10. She asked if I had seen the film yesterday
Explanation:
In linguistics, indirect speech is a grammatical mechanism for reporting the content of another utterance without directly quoting it. For example, the English sentence Jill said she was coming is indirect discourse while Jill said "I'm coming" would be direct discourse.
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Explanation:
More than 99 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. As new species evolve to fit ever changing ecological niches, older species fade away. But the rate of extinction is far from constant. At least a handful of times in the last 500 million years, 75 to more than 90 percent of all species on Earth have disappeared in a geological blink of an eye in catastrophes we call mass extinctions.
Though mass extinctions are deadly events, they open up the planet for new forms of life to emerge. The most studied mass extinction, which marked the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods about 66 million years ago, killed off the nonavian dinosaurs and made room for mammals and birds to rapidly diversify and evolve.
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This is an example of pathos! Pathos is a rhetorical device which appeals to the emotions. By having the audience imagine a sad scenario such as this one, the author is employing pathos.
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