In which sentence is the underlined phrase an adverb phrase?

the students in mr. bruns’s class planned a party for his retirement.
mr. bruns had been teaching for 35 years.
the students called several of mr. bruns’s former students.
the students gave mr. bruns a book of his favorite verses.

What are some of the images and diction used by the narrator that evoke the "dream of america"?

(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

Which of the following excerpt from part one of trifles suggest that mrs. hale believes mrs. wright may have had a motive for killing her husband?