Which sentence contains a verbal phrase acting as a modifier? passing my driving test on the first attempt would be the highlight of my day. giving a presentation in front of my class, i suddenly developed severe stage fright. the water saturated the ground, which made it impossible to plant the garden. dante tolerated his brother's annoying habits during homework time but later studied alone in his room

The story is about a postmaster who is trying to adapt to the new life in the village of ulapur. in what way is the postmaster's life different from his life in urban calcutta?

Which line in this excerpt from the great gatsby by f. scott fitzgerald contains a simile? about half way between west egg and new york the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. this is a valley of ashes—a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

Describe the cluster of trailers from the loch ness monster by john mcphee