D. It Appears Throughout The Story While Reading<span />
<span>Here is your plural verb, "The crowd watches the intense dance battle."
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By dictionary definition, hope is a verb.
</span><span>"Tommy the Clown, leader of the dancers, hopes the high-energy..."
Provides is also a verb.
"..</span><span>provides youth with energetic and positive role models."
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Fairly sure that this phrase is representative of the ratifying of an amendment. A 2/3 vote in the houses and a 3/4 vote in the states are the vote amounts needed for an amendment to the Constitution to be ratified. This phrase means that atleast 2/3 of each house agreed to ratify.