The correct answer is:
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<span>The phrase, "long and filled with frustrations", modifies the word: "wait".
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Further explanation:
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Let us examine the other answer choices.
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</span>→<span>Let us examine the first answer choice given:
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</span><span> The phrase "in the end" modifies the word "needed".
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</span> →<span> This is incorrect; since "needed" is not a noun or pronoun. As such,
this answer choice given is incorrect; since the phrase "in the end" is NOT an 'adjective phrase' that modifies the particular word: "needed",
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</span><span>→ Let us examine the third answer choice given:
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<span>The phrase "The wait was long" modifies the word "frustrations".
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</span>→ This is incorrect. The phrase, "The wait was long" does not modify the noun "frustrations."
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→ Let us examine the final answer choice:
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<span>The phrase "we needed" modifies the word "what".
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→ This is is incorrect. The phrase "we needed" is NOT an "adjective phrase".
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He's using middle English language, and as we read the excerpt, we see that he is speaking more formal
The first devices used for measuring the position of the Sun were shadow clocks, which later developed into the sundial. ... 3500 BC, are among the earliest shadow clocks. The oldest of all known sundials dates back to c. 1500 BC (during the 19th Dynasty), and was discovered in the Valley of the Kings in 2013.
