The correct answer for the given statement above would be option C. A clause used as the object of a preposition is called a noun clause. The object of the preposition will always be a noun. Therefore, the only clause that is also used as the object of a preposition is only the noun clause.
Humans, whales and bats have one thing in common: they're all mammals. This means that they have a common ancestor that is not shared by for example fish: in this way, they can be said to have a common ancestor, the first mammal.
However, in the end, all life on earth can be trade to a common ancestor- so to some degree this can also be said about all animals.
The author is trying to convey that in recent years, the
extinction rate for many animal species has significantly increased. He began
his point in the first sentence of the excerpt: “Species are disappearing at an
accelerating rate through human action, primarily habitat destruction but also
pollution and the introduction of exotic species into residual natural
environments.” Then, he further emphasizes his point in the sentence: “As the
last forests are felled in forest strongholds like the Philippines and Ecuador,
the decline of species will accelerate even more.” Which is immediately followed
by another sentence that supports his argument: “In the world as a whole,
extinction rates are already hundreds or thousands of times higher than before
the coming of man.
The correct answer is While breaking one pencil during the SATs is bad luck, breaking six pencils is downright abysmal.
Because abysmal is an adjective, and in the rest of the examples it is incorrectly used instead of a noun.
The petrified man is a short story by Eudora Welty published in 1939 it centers its attention in two gossiping ladies at a cosmetic shop.
B)Mrs. Fletcher does not want anyone to know that she is going to be a mother.
As mrs fletcher is pregnant and doesn´t want people to gossip about her, she gets mad at the fact that se realizes that people is talking about her.
