Mike's grandmother confuses him with her dead husband, as they have the same name and they both wear moustaches. Mike goes along because he realizes how much pain her grandmother is enduring, she desperately needs to be forgiven for something she did. Mike tries to set her right but there is no point in it, he is scared of the consequences if she finds out the truth, and he realizes that his grandmother is a human being with a life, a story and some mistakes she has made. And he doesn't want her to have something to feel guilty about, as he does.
Answer:
The answer is Option D: Because she wrote about environmental damage caused by DDT.
Explanation:
Carson warned about the overuse of pesticides like DDT (short for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane). These were overused in the agricultural industry in an attempt to control crop pests. This pesticide compound would be washed into streams and rivers and Carson warned that it was moving up the food chain, and entire ecosystems were threatened because it was dangerous for birds and fish and humans eating these animal and plant products too. Carson's was a successful science writer and scientist herself. Her argument reached far and wide after she published the Silent Spring in 1962. It is credited with the nationwide ban on the use of DDT and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Answer:
The question is incomplete, but to complete it, we have to know when to use the tenses:
We use the simple present to talk about habits, statements, feelings, plans. We use the past simple to talk about finished actions in the past that have a time reference.
Explanation:
To complete with the correct form of the verb to be, we have to know that the verb to change with the subject:
For I, we use "am" in the present and was in the past.
For he, she, it, we use is in the present and was in the past
Fo the subjects we, you, they, you, we use are for the present, and were for the past.
The next thing that we need to know to complete the exercise is when we use the simple present and the simple past.
- Simple present: We use it to talk about things that are always true, habits, routines, express feelings, and plans for the future.
They are actions that happen in the present.
- Simple past: we use it to talk about an action that has already finished at the time of speaking. It has a time reference like yesterday, last year, two weeks ago, etc.