7 j
2 b
3 k
4 d
9 c
8 a
1 e
5 f
6 g
I would say that the example of satire among these options is d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Twain is criticizing and mocking the English for settling everything in such a trivial manner as betting.
Answer:
The embryo initiates germination on the seed, still attached on the tree and further develops into a propagule. This phenomenon is known as vivipary. Mangroves aid soil formation by trapping debris. Prop roots and pneumatophores accumulate sediments in protected sites and form mangrove peats.
Botanists believe that mangroves originated in Southeast Asia, but ocean currents have since dispersed them to India, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
After walking to school, the bus slowly passed by.
This sentence contains a dangling modifier. The dangling modifier is "After walking to school". We don't know who did the walking. The bus is the subject of the sentence, but we know that the bus certainly didn't do any walking. We also don't know what the bus passed by. The rest of the sentences are correct as written. In the last option, it is clear that Egypt is the one waiting for the bus.
