9. choose the correct explanation for why hoping to beat his time from last year is a fragment in the following passage: theo trained four times a week all year in preparation for the marathon. hoping to beat his time from last year. a. it is missing a direct object. b. it begins with an –ing form of a verb. c. it does not have a subject. d. it is too short.

C. It does not have a subject.

Explanation:

A fragment is a group of words similar to a sentence in the sense that it starts with a capital letter and ends with an end mark but that in reality, it is not a sentence as it does not convey a complete idea. In this sense, a fragment is more like a phrase or a dependent clause, but standing alone.

Hoping to beat his time from last year. is a fragment because it does not express a complete thought. In order to correct it, we must add an independent or main clause that contains a subject, for example:

Hoping to beat his time from last year, Theo was determined to work even harder this time.

Theo: Subject.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.