Answer:
a. He was considered a genius by Mary.
b. The stairway must have been placed by a trespasser.
c. The car was given to me by my mate.
Explanation:
A verb's voice might be active or passive depending on the kind of action it is doing.
The link between the subject and the verb is clear when using the active voice.
Using passive voice is appropriate when the action, rather than the subject, is the point of the sentence. It doesn't matter who does it.
Answer:
The answer will be multiple-part.
Explanation:
"Your courage to the sticking place" is a well-known statement - from Shakespeare's play Macbeth. The idiom screw... to the sticking place - if you do some research - is defined as "being firm and resolute in... (in this case, courage)." This echoes Shakespeare's ambitious nature - as is shown in a poetic style.
The rest of this paragraph reflects that aspect of him as well. Such words as:
Wassail
Warder
Limbeck
Swinish
Spongy
Quell
Though seemingly just part of the nature of poetry, these words may spark images in your mind that typical, everyday words otherwise don't.
I hope you can gather a lot of info from all of that! Tell me if you need any further assistance...
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<span>The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.</span>
