4.044 that's called four and forty-four thousandths and the next one is called four and forty-four hundredths. So, 4.044 is greater than 4.44
<span>The sentences that contain prepositional phrases in brackets are:
1) (The man in the house) seemed to be asleep.
2) </span><span>The soldiers crept cautiously (through the tunnel.)
</span><span>A prepositional phrase is defined as a set of words that lack a verb or a subject. If you see that some part of a sentence lacks either verb or subject and contains a preposition - it is a prepositional phrase. The first sentence lacks a verb, but there is a subject and preposition 'in'. The second sentence contains preposition 'through' and object which is also a characteristics of prepositional phrase.</span>
Since we learn that the aunt has a soft heart, I will say that 'this is an example of indirect characterization', because we learn of her characteristics in an indirect way, that is, we are not directly told that she has a soft heart, we can infer that information from this passage.