You did not provide the excerpt but I wound it and the correct answers are the following two sentences:
1.<span>For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
Here we see that they do possess a kind of intelligence, maybe at first strange and unclear but it is there, no matter how strange it might seem.
2.</span><span>I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
Here the Time Traveler has found his Time Machine and he finds that the Morlocks had tried to grasp its function and its purpose. They have taken it apart and then cleaned and oiled it, which suggests they know somethings about how the machine work.
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The category of connective used in this sentence is show consequence.
Because the rain fell all day, the garden was wet - it is the consequence, the result.
The purpose a plot could serve is the events that make up the story/essay
Answer:
Breaking a bill : giving a change
Common clay : Ordinary individual
Trifle : insignificant, little
Larks : Tricks
Explanation:
Breaking a bill : A bill could be said to be broken when a smaller bill or denomination is returned to a person usually after having paid for a service or dashing out a part of the larger bill.
Common clay : This phrase takes out the uniqueness or special adornment, as it connotes 'ordinary' or lacking any special features or characteristic. In the context, common clay refers to an ordinary individual.
Trifle : represents which are of little or less importance, value or amount. Things that may be considered as insignificant.
