Identify the choices that best describes the underlined word if they have the time and energy, dina and maggie will prune and (water is underlined) the shrubs. a. part of a compound subject b. part of a compound predicate c. a direct object d. an indirect object tell me why so i can understand : )

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In the sentence: If they have the time and energy, Dina and Maggie will prune and water the shrubs, water is best described as a compound predicate.

To understand why, we need to understand what a predicate is.

Predicate can best be understood as part of a sentence that talks about the subject, and contains a verb.

In this particular sentence, water is a verb because it is an action of watering.

arah orne jewett first published "a white heron" in her 1886 collection, "a white heron and other stories." this short story tells the tale of what happens when sylvia, a 9-year-old girl living deep in the forest with her grandmother, meets a young hunter looking to capture, and kill, the white heron living in sylvia's woods. the climax occurs when sylvia must decide whether to him or protect the bird.

rising action

leading up to the climax of the story, the nameless young hunter befriends sylvia and her grandmother, mrs. tilly. he explains to mrs. tilly that he is bent on "stuffing and preserving" a little white heron that he believes lives near their cottage. mrs. tilly offers up that "[t]here ain't a foot o' ground" that sylvia doesn't know and suggests that she may be able to him find the bird.

climax

after following, but not really , the young hunter on his search for the heron, sylvia slips out of bed alone in the middle of the night to find the heron for herself. perched at the top of a gigantic pine tree, sylvia spots the heron, and its nest, in a dead hemlock tree across the way. the following morning she returns home to find her grandmother and the hunter waiting for her at the door. in the moment when she plans to tell the hunter where to find the heron, she suddenly decides to protect the heron and remain silent; even the promise of much needed money does not sway her.

explanation:

the nurse was the one who kept interrupting the balcony scene.

romeo decides to spend the night with juliet before leaving verona due to being exiled for killing