Which statements describe Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language? Check all that apply. It was published in the late 1800s.
It includes over forty thousand definitions.
It includes information about word origins.
It has a preface written by William Shakespeare.
It offers excerpted examples of the words in literature.

answer: age of the protagonists.

dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories by james joyce, published in 1914. they tell the stories of the irish middle class in and around dublin in the early years of the 20th century.

joyce divides the collection into three sections dealing with childhood, adolescence and maturity. therefore, one pattern he uses to organize his stories is the age of the protagonists. the initial stories deal with children, and as the stories continue, they focus on progressively older people.

if the italicized noun phrase is "the chairman", the correct option is s (subject). this noun phrase performs the syntactic function of subject of the main clause, as it preceeds the verb phrase ("heard") and is the doer of the action.

if the italicized noun phrase is "what was said about the program", the correct option is do (direct object). this noun phrase follows a transitive verb ("heard"), which requires a direct object to fully complete its meaning.

if the italicized noun phrase is "the program". the correct option is op (object of preposition). this noun phrase follows a preposition ("about"), which requires a prepositional object in order to complete its meaning.