Read this excerpt from the people could fly. nehemiah was a one who believed that if he must be a slave, he'd best be a smart one. no one who callin himself master of nehemiah had ever been able to make him work hard for nothin. nehemiah would always have a funny lie to tell or he made some laughin remark whenever the so-called master had a question or a scoldin. which best describes how nehemiah survived being enslaved? by using his wit to charm people by using his wings to fly away by using his intelligence to gain knowledge by using his strength to overpower people

The right answer is by using his wit to charm people. The protagonist of this folktale, as told by Virginia Hamilton in The People Could Fly, is a young slave who is capable of avoiding the hardest tasks by making the plantation owners, even the cruelest ones, laugh, charming them with his inventiveness. The charm, however, does not last long, because as soon as his masters realize that he is being more clever, they sell him and he has to move to another plantation.      

often a noun phrase is just a noun or a pronoun:

people like to have money.

i am tired.

it is getting late.