Underline the verbal phrases in the following sentences. Identify the phrase as a participle, a gerund, or a verb.

1) After arguing with the captain of his vessel, Selkirk demanded to be left ashore on the isle of Juan Fernandez in the Pacific Ocean.

2) But no one came. Living on the island was terribleness first. He was afraid to leave the beach in case an English ship should pass.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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i believe the answer is inference

both inform the reader that faryad and liaqat were not given the chance to tell their version of events at the police station.

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