Identify the bolded verbals as either a gerund, infinitive or participle. also identify their function in the sentence. tiffany, bored with the usual presents, asked for a pet for her birthday. walking a dog of her own had been her dream for a long time. a poodle puppy wagging its tail in a pet store caught her eye. hoping for this pet, tiffany went to the store every day to look at the beloved pup. on her birthday, tiffany and her mom hurried to the store to buy the poodle. tiffany named the excited puppy inglebert, which means “unusually intelligent.” playing fetch and teaching inglebert new tricks now take up much of tiffany’s time.

Read the excerpt from the war of the worlds, in which the first martian exits the spacecraft. a sudden chill came over me. there was a loud shriek from a woman behind. i half turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now projecting, and began pushing my way back from the edge of the pit. i saw astonishment giving place to horror on the faces of the people about me. i looked again at the cylinder, and ungovernable terror gripped me. i stood petrified and staring. what option accurately analyzes the impact of the narrator's thoughts and actions on the tone of the excerpt? the war of the worldsa disdainful tone is created as the narrator ponders the ugliness of the tentacles and turns to the shrieking woman. a melancholy tone is created by the narrator's thoughts of fear and refusal to avert his eyes. a tone of determination is created when the narrator thinks of escape and backs away from the edge of the pit. a fearful tone is created through the narrator's thoughts of horror and his glance at the cylinder.