Read the following paragraph and select the most important supporting detail. Take an animal the size of a pencil eraser. Combine it with millions of plantlike creatures called algae, which live in the animal's body. You get a coral polyp. Corals are animals that can also act like plants. That's how they became the master builders of almost 3,000 coral reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef. Corals are animals that can also act like plants. You get a coral polyp. Combine it with millions of plantlike creatures called algae, which live in the animal's body: Take an animal the size of a pencil eraser. That's how they became the master builders of almost 3,000 coral reefs that make up the Great Barrier Reef.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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the answer is option 1

explanation:

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how is the underlined gerund phrase used in the sentence?  

josh's plan, rushing the passer, seemed sound to us.

a.

object of a preposition

b.

direct object

c.

appositive

d.

subject