When analyzing an author's ideas, one way to proceed is by making reasonable guesses, or based on what the author states directly or implies indirectly.

Based on thoreau's transcendental beliefs, why might he have written an essay opposing the war? to explain the individual's responsibilities within a corrupt society to begin his own political career to call attention to the ways in which the government was essentially good to express his lack of interest in societal issues

Which of these can an adverbial clause modify?

4friends evenly divided up a nn-slice pizza. one of the friends, harris, ate 11 fewer slice than he received.