These bagels are stale.
determiner or pronoun

Determiner.

Explanation:

Determiners are words, most times pronouns placed before a noun, that qualifies/determines something about the noun placed after it or shows who possess it.

Pronouns (possessive) on the other hand do not require a noun after it.

Examples of determiners: the, this, some, your, my, enough, their, etc

Examples below:

(In the first sentence some books is explicit in qualifying the number of books while in the second sentence the word some replaces books)

( The placed before project determines that we are talking about the project while, yours is the possessive pronoun that replaces your project).

Therefore, These bagels are stale. These determines which bagels are stale followed by the word Bagels, a noun.

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.