<em>Which word best describes the tone of this excerpt?</em>
<em>The correct answer is D. Sympathetic</em>
- <em>The word that best describes the tone is sympathetic. When the driver says, “Times are changed, don’t you know?” is looking for a change in the mind of his listener. He is trying to cause a reaction so that the listener makes sense of the reality. In the sentence, “Get your three dollars a day, feed your kids” The driver is asking his listener to do the actions that matter, he is asking the listener not to deviate from the path that is going to take him or her to live day by day. During the complete excerpt, the driver is showing compassion and sensitivity to the listener’s emotions.</em>
Answer:
1)”I’m a student” Tom said.
Tom said that he was a student.
2)”I’m living in London now” Charles said.
Charles said he was living in London then.
3)”You are my best friends” Jane said to us.
Jane told us we were her best friends.
4)”I don’t know what Fred is doing” Jonny said to me.
Jonny told me that he didn't know what Fred was doing.
Explanation:
The correct answer is <em><u>participle</u></em>
After hearing the raucous, cheering response to Adam’s speech, Mr. James feared that his new student body president might be an amateur demagogue.
