D) While
While packed schedules can take away time with friends and family, another common consequence of an active life is, in many cases, a shortage of sleep.
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Answer:
The value of going to the bay had diminished. The explanation for this is that he had just finished an exceptionally stressful trial that he had imposed on himself.
Answer:
Because they argued.
Explanation:
At the beginning of the text we learned that Anansi and kling kling argued and after that, they stopped being friends. This caused Anansi to create several traps to catch Kling Kling, who always noticed them because he was very smart.
Although we do not know the reason for the argument between them, we know that it was a serious discussion, because it hindered their friendship in a very strong way.
Breathing in the first sentence is a participle acting as an adjective.
The second sentence is an auxiliary verb. is and breathing make up the verb.
Breathing is ... go no further. Breathing is the subject of the third sentence. It can only be a noun or a pronoun when it is a subject. So here it is a gerund.