Read the first stanza of "the tide rises, the tide falls." the tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curlew calls; along the sea-sands damp and brown the traveller hastens toward the town, and the tide rises, the tide falls. which statement best describes the theme of this stanza? nature and humans move independently of each other. human beings are challenged by events in the natural world. human beings have built too many towns near natural resources. nature will eventually solve all of humanity’s problems.

In this project you will get practice writing sentences of more complexity. here is your goal for this assignment: write sentences containing present and past participles. write sentences containing gerunds. write ten sentences using the following terms as participles: feel, ride, smoke, pray, kneel, sacrifice, steal, talk, hit, and freeze. five of the terms must be used as present participles, while the other five must be used as past participles. then choose five of these verbs to write five sentences containing gerunds or gerund phrases. for these, identify the noun function of each gerund. your project will be graded based on the following: your attention to the instructions given above use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions") requirements.