English Help Please? Quick 3 Questions?
1. What is the tone in the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi"? There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. ironic and witty joyous and poetic pessimistic and dejected 2. Which meaning of the vocabulary word patent is used in the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi"? “You’ve cut off your hair?” asked Jim, laboriously, as if he had not arrived at that patent fact yet even after the hardest mental labor. obvious bold original 3. Which of the following verbs completes the sentence CORRECTLY? The patient ____ on her back for the past two weeks. lay has laid has lain
Why does this sentence use, "was having done": "Wondering what it was he was having done."?
“Was having done” refers to when you pay or ask someone to do something for you, usually on your body (like cut hair) or your property (like paint the house).For example: “He was having the lawn mowed.” Or “He was having a surgical procedure done on his wrist.”So, if you know he was, say, at the hospital, or the barber’s, or on vacation and he “was having something done,” you know that someone was making changes for him or on him. “Hmmm,” you say, “I know he’ll come back looking different, I wonder what it was he was having done.” Or you say, “There’s some big secret around Charlie. He promised a big surprise when he returns. I expect him tomorrow. I wonder what it was he was having done.”(Edit: I answered this question without reading the attached link.)