Which is a simple predicate in each sentence ? a. in the middle of the night, siamese cats often sing with great enthusiasm. b. for a duck, he is very good dancer. c. slippery sam was, is, and always will be a wonderful salesman. d. they ran in the street and played in the yard until dinner

they bound logs together and built a raft. enkidu steered it down the great river. gilgamesh carried humbaba's head.

answer: the correct answer is that he still ridicules people that look different.

explanation: in "the nose"   by nikolai gogol, the author sets up a satirical view of russian society. the book is divided into three parts and tells the story of collegiate assessor ('major') kovalyov, who gets up one morning without his nose. he later finds out that his nose has developed a life by itself, and has apparently surpassed him by attaining the rank of state councillor. the short story showcases the obsession with social rank that plagued russia after peter the great introduced the table of ranks. by allowing commoners to attain hereditary nobility through service to the state, a large population was given the chance to move up in social status. this opportunity, however, also gave way to large bureaucracies, in which many of gogol's characters worked.