The states benefited each other with defense, goods and trading
Answer:
C. People often get laughed at for speaking up about deep ideas
Explanation:
According to the given excerpt from Endgame by Samuel Beckett, there is a conversation between Hamm and Clov where Hamm asks if they're not beginning to mean something, to which Clov scoffs and laughs at such suggestion. And with the introduction of a rational being, Clov drops his telescope and begins to ponder.
The theme the passage mostly clearly develops is that people often get laughed at for speaking up about deep ideas
Answer: a) this is a verb phrase.
Explanation:
A verb phrase is that part of the sentence that contains a verb and it's dependants. The Dependent is usually a helping/auxillary verb that comes before the main verb to 'help' the verb make it's point.
Such verbs include, am, will, would, does, and could.
In this case the verb phrase would be, "will meet" with will being the Helping Verb and Meet being the main verb.
It is worthy of note that some times there will be more than one helping verb though such as 'had been' in "had been watching television"
Answer:
A claim must be arguable but stated as a fact. It must be debatable with inquiry and evidence; it is not a personal opinion or feeling.
A claim defines your writing's goals, direction, and scope.
A good claim is specific and asserts a focused argument.
