Which of the following employs an ad hominem fallacy? A. Studies suggest that joining a team sport has both physical and
mental benefits.
B. Joining team sport helps students learn skills such as teamwork
because students work together as a team.
C. Some students didn't try out for the basketball team last year, and
they had lower grades the next semester.
D. Kids who do not try out for the basketball team are lazy and waste
their time playing video games.

D

Explanation:

A is positive. It says that there are benefits to joining a team. The answer is not A.

B is the same thing so the answer is not B either.

C There is nothing person in C, but it might require proof.

The answer is D because the tone is derogatory. Certainly a better statement can be made other than using video games as an argument.

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.