Read the paragraph. my brother and i pulled into the driveway. i peered up and thought it was suspicious that every shade in the house was drawn. the house had been unusually dark for early evening. as my brother unlocked the front door, i heard some hushed whispers. suddenly, about ten of my friends and my parents jumped out and yelled, “surprise! ” which is the best replacement for the underlined sentence? the house was unusually dark for early evening. the house will be unusually dark for early evening. the house has been unusually dark for early evening. the house was being unusually dark for early evening.

The answer to your question would be that the best replacement for the underlined sentence is the following one: The house was unusually dark for early evening.

In the passage above, someone is narrating the moment in which he was thrown a surprise birthday party. The whole story is in the past simple tense, so it will be better for the sentence in question to be also in that verb tense. What is more, the state of being dark is not something that can be interrupted by another action so as to use the past perfect tense. In addition to this, the PP "for early evening" is specifying that the state of darkness only refers to that period of time (early evening), it is not something that has been happening throughout the whole day so as to justify the use of the past perfect tense.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

innocence can be defined as the lack of sin, relating it with the lack of guilt, also it can be a synonime of naivety. most people agree that sins are made out of experiences, intentionally or not, as well as you stop being naive once certain things happen to you throughout your life. so, with this explained, the chosen answers are:

when the boy saw the effects of war, he no longer viewed life as innocent.

the loss of innocence is a result of gaining experience and making mistakes.

one way to define innocence is as a lack of worldly experience or sophistication.