Identify the entire verb phrase.

the whole event had been secretly planned by the wong twins.
a. had been planned
b. planned
c. had been
d. had been secretly planned

[1] on her way home from practice, rebekka found a gold man’s watch. [2] she wasn’t sure what to do. [3] there was no name engraved on the back. [4] looking at the gold links on the band, the watch seemed to rebekka to be expensive. [5] she felt badly that someone had lost such a nice watch. what is the best revision of the troublesome modifier in sentence 5?

Which of these phrases describes the speaker’s tone? a. pedantic and cold b. dull and monotonous c. aloof and apathetic d. engaging and persuasive e. anxious and arrogant

Read this excerpt from “the love song of j. alfred prufrock” and answer the question. let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,  the muttering retreats  of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels  and sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:   streets that follow like a tedious argument  of insidious intentwhat does the use of the word  muttering  suggest? a feeling of discontentthe noise of city streetsthe inability to be understooda sense of lonelinessit's not c so hel0