0) Excerpt from The Basics of Slider Care Lindsay Rock 2) One of the easiest turtles to find in pet stores is the red-eared slider. These turtles live in the wild in most areas of the United States, especially in the Southeast. They are freshwater turtles that fancy ponds, marshes, and other slow- moving bodies of water. They are excellent swimmers, but you can often see them lounging in the sun on rocks and logs. This lounge time is known as "basking." In the second paragraph the word fancy means A) decorative B) imagine C) notion D) prefer​

the passage can be best described as: "the british legislature extended an unwarranted jurisdiction".

we can say that because the text clearly states how the people of the colonies warned the british about their excessive desire to rule over them, without taking into consideration the difficulties their brothers had experienced in america: they struggled to establish the colonies, to adapt to new types of weather, fight with the natives, etc., and how they now see (or then saw) the only way out was to cut all ties with the british, since they ignored the people's petitions.

the participle phrase is decided. it is past tense.

i don't know the participle though, sorry.