At the end of the interview, Vedantam concludes that 'having a critical mass of women in work groups'
rather than spreading them thinly across the campus
could be a solution to keeping women interested in
the sciences'. Identify the single most relevant detail
in the transcript which leads to this way of thinking.

a. both connotative and denotative.

the answer is:

when will (v) the books (n) be (v) due?

nouns refer to people (other than pronouns), places and things, whereas verbs describe actions and are usually part of the predicate of a sentence. finally, pronouns can work as nouns and identify the participants in speech.

in the example sentence, "will" is a verb part or auxiliary verb, "be" is an infinitive verb and "books" is a plural noun.