Starter in back of books: Was or were
The crowd (1) milling about outside the shops.
One man (2) looking through the shop window.
Where (3) the displays? Where (4) the big poster
advertising the sale? Two children and a dog (5)
playing by the roadside. A man (6) trying to get
them to stay away from the cars which (7) driving
very quickly past. Three students (8) hanging
around outside the fish and chip shop. (9) they up
to no good? It (10)n't clear.

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die. that strain again! it had a dying fall: o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, that breathes upon a bank of violets, stealing and giving odour! now read the excerpt from "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." for i have known them all already, known them all: have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, i have measured out my life with coffee spoons; i know the voices dying with a dying fall beneath the music from a farther room. what does the phrase "dying fall" most likely mean in both excerpts