The passage above is an excerpt from this. If the underlined word, which is "crisis", be substituted with the word "event" instead, this would create a tone of less intense. Answer is opt
Swimming is an action verb because you can do it. Fast is not an action verb it is an adjective.
The feeling of an object's surface is known as its D. texture<span>. The texture of an object is a physical property and describes how the object feels when upon touch. An example of an object with a smooth texture is glass, and an object with a rough texture is a paved road. The texture is useful in determining other properties of a substance, such as the amount of friction it provids.</span>
The line is an example of a direct quotation. That is when a quotation by someone is unchanged and presented in its entirety. Of course, it's a part of a larger speech, but it's unchanged and can be as such analyzed for various things that the linguists would be searching for.
You did not provide the excerpt but I wound it and the correct answers are the following two sentences:
1.<span>For once, at least, I grasped the mental operations of the Morlocks.
Here we see that they do possess a kind of intelligence, maybe at first strange and unclear but it is there, no matter how strange it might seem.
2.</span><span>I was surprised to find it had been carefully oiled and cleaned.
Here the Time Traveler has found his Time Machine and he finds that the Morlocks had tried to grasp its function and its purpose. They have taken it apart and then cleaned and oiled it, which suggests they know somethings about how the machine work.
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