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I always loved my grandfather's explanations of our seasons, "This is the country of three seasons. From June on to November it lies hot, still, and unbearable, sick with violent and unrelenting storms; then on until April, it is chill, quiet, and drinks its scant rain and scanter snows. From April to the hot season again, it is blossoming, radiant, and a seductress." His months were only approximate, later or earlier the rain-laden wind may drift up the water gate of the Colorado River from the Gulf and bring to us our heat, chill, or radiance. In the desert, we see the land sets its seasons by the rain.

Does the bolded portion contain an error? Choose the correction if one is needed.

and drank its scant rain
and thirsty for its scant rain
and, drinks its scant rain
No correction needed
("and drinks its scant rain" is bolded)

in this passage from chapter 6 of "animal farm", by george orwell, what the author is ridiculing in this passage is the frivolity of some rules.

clover, the mare, believes she remembers that the fourth commandment forbade sleeping in beds because it was something that humans did. snowball, napoleon, and the pigs are brain-workers who look after the welfare of the farm. they are the obvious leaders because they are smart, and so they are entitled to eat the best food and sleep in beds. it is squealer, who says these lines making the difference between sleeping with sheets, what humans do, and sleeping in beds, what pigs do. the unwillingness to question authority makes the oppressed to obey without thinking.

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the noun in this is person

answer: b) bubbling its way

explanation: an adjective is a word or a group of words that modifies a noun (name, thing, place,

in this case, the first option "to heartily enjoy" isn't describing or modifying any noun, the third option "hiking along merrily" is describing an action but it doesn't modify any noun, the last option "beside us" is just a preposition that indicates position, so the correct answer is the second one: "bubbling its way" because it is modifying the noun "stream".