Read the following excerpt from "The Gift of the Magi" and answer the question. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout
for the mendicancy squad. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric
button from which no mortal finger could coax a ring,
What is the meaning of the word coax as it is used in the passage?
force
persuade
expect
repair

sing because that is what they are doing in the sentence

explanation:

the simple predicate is the main verb in the predicate that tells what the subject does. example: my father fixed the dryer. read each sentence. draw a line under the complete predicate.

add me on snap   tschrake20

henry david thoreau and ralph warren emerson earned the name transcendentalists.you could assume that transcendentalists come from a well educated background from people that were alive before the american civil war.these people, mostly new englanders, mostly around boston, were attempting to create a uniquely american body of literature. it was already decades since the americans had won independence from england. and so they deliberately went about creating literature, essays, novels, philosophy, poetry, and other writing that were clearly different from anything from england, france, germany, or any other european nation.another way to look at the transcendentalists is to see them as a generation of people struggling to define spirituality and religion in a way that took into account the new understandings their age made available.