What is a gerund and gerund phrase?

Read the excerpt from The Odyssey. Six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death. And this new grief we bore with us to sea: our precious lives we had, but not our friends.

What is paraphrasing? A. Copying an author's writing into your notebook B. Prereading the headings, table of contents, and list of objectives C. Making an outline of important headings in each section D.

In this passage, Achebe includes a quotation from Heart of Darkness. Why is it effective as evidence that Conrad has racist views? It shows that Conrad saw Africans as being inferior to Europeans.

Copy the two lines of the mourning song for women on p. 125. What can you inter about women in the Ibo culture from these lines?

Compare and contrast derrida and saussure

How might the authors background and time period affect a piece of writing

Which sentence is correct: The yolk of the egg are white. OR The yolk of the egg is white.

1. Which sentence is written correctly? Of great concern to scientists is the controlled growth of bacteria cultures in test tubes.

Read these lines from the passage and answer the question that follows. 'Bertie,' she said, 'you look a sight. You look perfectly dissipated.' I was feeling like a badly wrapped brown-paper parcel. I'm never at my best in the early morning.

Vanessa is very sad today. isit a fragment or sentence i think its a fragment just need a secon opinion