Read this excerpt from frankenstein:

[the professor] began his lecture by a recapitulation of the history of chemistry and the various improvements made by different men of learning. . "the ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities, and performed nothing. the modern masters . . penetrate into the recesses of nature, and show how she works in her hiding-places. they ascend into the heavens; they have discovered how the blood circulates, and the nature of the air we breathe."which topic best relates to the theme developed in this passage?

a. the history of chemistry
b. teaching as an art form
c. the need to work in secrecy
d. the pursuit of knowledge

D) The pursuit of knowledge.

Explanation: In the given excerpt from "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, we can see developed the theme of the pursuit of knowledge, because the profesor starts talking about the various improvements in chemistry made by different men, and how, with the work of ancient teachers and then modern masters, we can know things like how the blood circulates and the nature of the air we breathe.

idk= i don't know the answer

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class