The little farmers watched debt creep up on them like the tide
they sprayed the trees and sold no crop, they pruned and grafted and could not pick the crop.
which statement best describes the tone of this passage?
a. the author uses descriptive words to show what the farmers have done.
b. the author repeats words and employs parallelism.
c. the author uses the word \"creep\" to emphasize that debt is sinister.
d. the author feels frustrated for the farmers.

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answer: the pronoun that is used in the given subject above is the word "himself" which refers to the noun or antecedent "maestro". the pronoun is an example of an intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the subject of the sentence and it uses reflexive pronouns such as myself, yourself, himself, herself, themselves and ourselves. 

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how is the underlined gerund phrase used in the sentence?  

josh's plan, rushing the passer, seemed sound to us.

a.

object of a preposition

b.

direct object

c.

appositive

d.

subject