The war that <span>wars did John Steinbeck's "Symptoms" and Tim O'Brien's "Ambush" was discussed happened in </span>D) the Civil War and World War I. There ideas are different because Steinbeck’s “Symptoms” discuss the aftereffects of war on soldiers while O’Brien’s tone toward soldiers <span>and victims of war is sympathetic in which there will be guilt after the war.</span>
The answer is B: Less than a decade ago, the HSUS...an affiliate [Human Society International].
Brackets are used to give the writers (when they need to add information) an opportunity to add an explanation, or emphasis to a word, or change a <em>quote to fit to a sentence, but without changing the meaning of the text</em>. In A) <em>global work</em> doesn't need explanation; C) <em>decade</em> doesn't need explanation; D) <em>HSUS</em> was already explained in the first sentence of the text.
The answer is: The flowers in the garden bloom beautifully.
The verb <em>to be</em> can be conjugated as <em>am, is, are, was, were </em>or <em>been, </em>and it signifies to exist, occur o take place. In that respect, the chosen sentence does not possess the verb <em>to be</em> - it actually contains the verb <em>bloom</em>, which means to produce flowers.
The rest of the sentences are incorrect because all of them include conjugations of the verb to be, such as <em>is </em>and <em>was</em>.
