Identify the type of verbal used in the following sentence. The PLANNING of the masquerade ball took many months.

A. infinitive
B. gerund
C. participle
D. noun

Please select the best answer from the choices provided

In the song mallam sile sings in lines 113 through 130 the knife probably represents

Choose the best paraphrase of bashes haiku an old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again a.the pond was silent until the frog jumped in splashing now alternates with quiet b.a pond will never be silent after one frog jumps into it and starts splashing around c. a frog jumps into a quiet pond there is a splash then all is quiet once more d. there was once an accident body of water that a frog splashed into and died

Choose two context clues to the meaning of the word sloth