The verb is underlined in the sentence. what principal part is the verb?

bill laid the blocks in several rows.

a.
past

b.
present participle

c.
past participle

d.
present

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Which revision of this sentence best uses direct characterization?

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song,    better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.    laugh, for the time is brief, a thread the length of a span.    laugh and be proud to belong to the old proud pageant of man. (laugh and be merry/john masefield/public domain) which of these is the main idea of the poem?