The group of words that will describe the subject.
A predicate noun is a word which renames the noun that has been mentioned in the sentence. In this case Franklin Roosevelt is the noun that has been renamed as "President", which makes it the answer to the question.
Another example in : My brother's favourite food is pizza.
<span>The predicate nominative in the sentence is Pizza. because that is the word that is replacing the earlier mentioned noun, which was "food". </span>
The earth is rather large and not exactly a point in space, the author however is comparing it to a point in space because of how vast space really is. A metaphor is basically a comparison (Not exactly true) that doesn't use the words like or as... (That's a Simile.) The earth isn't an actual dot in space. It's big, but because of how big space is, it's compared to a dot... Hope this helps... :)
Answer:
b. He knows he has improved and is continuing to improve.
Explanation:
Coates openly claims that he has gotten much better in French. He doesn't actually remember since when but he knows that he has improved a lot in French.
He admits that there were times when he wanted to give up because of fatigue and hopelessness but times like in Montreal really encouraged him to keep improving.
Coates says that learning French is like taking a canoe from California to China. It is not an easy task and there's so much room to learn and improve. Thus, he hopes that he would keep on improving every single day.
A dictionary contains all of this information EXCEPT parts of speech.