<span>to direct actions that take place onstage
This stage direction would serve the purpose of directing several actions and character choices. First of all, the actor playing the sheriff would know that he should move away from the stove and unbutton his coat. Also, he would know to change his body language so that it looked like he was trying to be more official. </span>
Maybe the third and second question
A phrase is a group of words, without a subject or a verb, that functions in a sentence as a single part of speech. ... A prepositional phrase is a group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or a pronoun. This noun or pronoun is called the “object of the preposition
<span>He believed that the war was fought to add more slave states to the United States.
He believed that by acquiring the Mexican territory, the Democratic party would obtain additional slave state that strengthen their position in the government.
Since Henry David Thoreau consider himself as an abolitionist, he did not support the purpose of this Mexican-American war.
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