The beginning of the 21st century has not seen the kind of exciting "space age" gadgets that some people predicted long ago. But that could change as the speed of technological development keeps increasing and people care more and more about how they
live and how they spend their free time.

Which word from the passage means "said before"?

A. technological
B. increasing
C. predicted
D. development

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

1. alliteration

2. wistful