A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.
Read the passage from The Importance of Being Earnest.
Jack. . . . Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of respect that you could not possibly appreciate, lives at my place in the country under the charge of her admirable governess, Miss Prism.
Algernon. Where is that place in the country, by the way?
Jack. That is nothing to you, dear boy. You are not going to be invited . . .
By refusing to let Algernon meet Cecily, what character trait does Jack display?
protectiveness
mischievousness
jealousy
<span>compassion
The answer is </span>protectiveness
Answer:
Probably Fall, since that is the time school starts.
Explanation:
Answer:
"having been long enclosed"
Explanation:
A participle is a verb that ends with the suffix -ing, -ed, -en, -d, etc.
It can serve the function of an adjective by modifying the noun or pronoun in the sentence.
A participial phrase are group of words that are made up of a participle and nouns, pronouns or noun phrases which serve the function of being direct objects, indirect objects or action complements.