Which item below best exemplies the overall mood of the story? a "There were no attendants at home; they had absconded to make merry in honor of the time." b "I scarcely laid the first tier of the masonry when I discovered that the intoxication of Fortunato had in a great measure worn off." c "It was now midnight, and my task was drawing to a close. I had completed the eight, the ninth, and the tenth tier." d "At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of paris."

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.