Read the following sentence. alayna has been playing with those blocks all day. what is the verb tense, and what is the meaning of the verb tense?
a. present progressive expresses something that is happening right now.
b. present perfect progressive expresses something happened in the past and is still happening.
c. present expresses something that is happening in general.
d. present perfect expresses that an action happened at an unspecified time before now.

Which of these events inspired many of stephen crane’s writings, including the story “an episode of war”?

Is expression of words or ideas opposed to what is literally meant or expected called.

Isaw clearly the doom which had been prepared for me, and congratulated myself upon the timely accident by which ! had escaped. another step before my fall, and the world had seen me no more and the death just avoided was of that very character which i had regarded as fabulous and frivolous in the tales respecting the inquisition. to the victims of its tyranny, there was the choice of death with its direst physical agonies, or death with its most hideous moral horrors. i had been reserved for the latter. by long suffering my nerves had been unstrung, until i trembled at the sound of my own voice, and had become in every respect a fitting subject for the species of torture which awaited me. which torture does the passage above reference? a. being eaten alive by rats b.being sliced open by a giant blade c.being killed by falling into a hole d. being burned alive