Answer:
A "The spring of 1998 was the Halley’s Comet of desert wildflower years." (lines 1–2)
Explanation:
This is the excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver's scientific essey "Called Out". It describes events in the spring of 1998 and gives insight on magnificent and complex life cycle of desert plants.
The given sentence provides description of the highway medians suggesting that there were unusually many flowers, rarely seen before.
That provides evidence to answer A. which claims that that spring was the Halley's Comet of desert wildflower years. Halley's Comet is a rare phenomenon that happens only once every 76 years, so by making this comparison, the author claims that what happened that spring was a true botanical rarity.
The Answer would be V.B. Aakye
The 5 for present participle:
<span>1. I have TALKED to my parents about my exam </span>
<span>2. She has KNELT in front of the cross every time she has entered the church </span>
<span>3. He has FELT love for her since he met her </span>
<span>4. We have PRAYED for him since he became ill </span>
<span>5. They have SMOKED cigarettes since they started college </span>
<span>The 5 for past participle: </span>
<span>1. The money was STOLEN because the vault was open </span>
<span>2. I was HIT by a car last night when I was crossing the street </span>
<span>3. They left the food in the freezer and they forgot to take it out so after a few hours the food was FROZEN </span>
<span>4. In ancient cultures people were SACRIFICED in order to make gods happy </span>
<span>5. In the past, horses were RIDDEN by men only. </span>
<span>As you can see, passive sentences are the ones in which past participle is normally used. In a passive sentence you will say "horses were RIDDEN by men" instead of "men RODE horses", so you have to use verbs that can be used that way. For example, in the case of the verb "kneel", it would be difficult to use in past participle because a sentence in the passive form would make little or no sense at all.
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Yes, the book would’ve had only a slightly larger effect if it was organized differently
By definition, a gerund is a verb that ends with -ing.
With this in mind, we can see that "dancing" and "writing" are gerunds. If we need to change them into infinitives, then we need to know what infinitives are.
An infinitive is the basic for of a verb with the word "to" in front of it. If you look at the end of your sentence where you have "to paint," you have an example of an infinitive.
To change our two gerunds, we need to drop the -ing and make each for basic: "dance" and "write". Then, we just need to add the word "to" in front of it, making it "to dance" and "to write."
Thus, our sentence should now read "I keep telling people that I love to dance, to write, and to paint.
