Answer: C: to show respect
Explanation: Homage means to sort of pay your respects to someone. In this case Mark is paying his respect to his grandmother by entering the cooking contest.
The statement is partially correct, the laws would be extreme in numbers and there would be far more punishments than a state with a moderate amount of laws. There would be more laws or regulations broken or violated when it would regard certain things. But the number of laws however does not exactly show how corrupt the state may be, but how extensive or extreme the punishments for the crime would be.
To begin with,
To start off,
First,
(Launch straight into facts)
It is certain,
Clearly,
It is said that,
The facts are clear,
This essay/paragraph explores/discusses,
For starters,
It has incorrect grammer...The, "I" should be in caps...And it is an incomplete sentence...(I am not sure what you are really asking, but I tried!)
So, if you are asking me to regard your sentence, it should look like this...
I went to the cinema with a friend of mine!
I really hope this helps!