Based on the highlighting, what is the author’s purpose in this passage?

a. to persuade readers to use different forms of english
b. to inform readers based on her personal experience

c. to entertain readers with her knowledge of different types of language
d. to describe her career to interested readers
answer on edgnuity: b. to inform readers based on her personal experience

Asap that time of year thou mayst in me behold when yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang upon those boughs which shake against the cold, bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. in this excerpt, what is the best meaning for the word "late"? not on time until recently dead well into the evening

"the trouble is," sighed the doctor, grasping her meaning intuitively, "that youth is given up to illusions. it seems to be a provision of nature; a decoy to secure mothers for the race. and nature takes no account of moral consequences, of arbitrary conditions which we create, and which we feel obliged to maintain at any cost." what larger idea is the doctor referring to when he says that nature takes no account of moral consequences? impulses often overrule a person’s sense of good and bad. nature forces women into motherhood. young people are prone to having delusions. morals play no role when we choose who we love.

Leslie would probably have come with us if she didn’t work all summer. which is the verb phrase?