“avoiding academic offences won’t be hard with clear rules in mind.” what is the subject of this sentence? a. avoiding b. academic c. offences d. rules

The subject of this sentence is “Avoiding” so option A) is correct. This is an example of verbs used as nouns and it is called “gerund”. The gerund is formed by verb+ing and it functions as a noun. The gerund “avoiding” in this sentence is the main word in the subject.  

The words “academic” and “offences” are part of the subject but the main word, as mentioned before, is the gerund “avoiding”.  

The noun “rules” is part of a prepositional phrase within the predicate.

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.