Questions 5–8: Indicate whether each of the italicized words in the following sentences is used as a participle or as the main verb of the sentence. (Remember that a participle standing alone can’t be the main verb of a sentence.) 5. The dog is tugging at the chain fastened to the pole.

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6. His walking shoes are still good as new.

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7. The hanging plant is a philodendron.

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8. I don’t think we’ll be able to mend the broken dish.

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Read this passage: there were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt. "am i less sensitive than i used to be, then? ", he thought, and was already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the newspaper. quickly one after another, his eyes watering with pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them because he couldn't stand the smell. kafka, the metamorphosis (david wyllie, trans.) what can you infer about gregor from this excerpt? a. he enjoys disturbing his family by making a lot of noise. b. he is upset at being locked in the room and tries to escape. c. he is becoming less human and more like a bug. d. he is depressed and is trying to hurt himself.

How do people behave when they are feuding and what characterizes their behavior

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