Which one of these excerpts from mark twain's life on the mississippi best shows that the story is told in first person?
a. ten minutes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack-staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys.
b. i first wanted to be a cabin-boy, so that i could come out with a white apron on and shake a tablecloth over the side, where all my old comrades could see me.
c. then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight and to discharge freight, all at one and the same time.
d. assembled there, the people fasten their eyes upon the coming boat as upon a wonder they are seeing for the first time.

B. I first wanted to be a cabin-boy, so that I could come out with a white apron on and shake a tablecloth over the side, where all my old comrades could see me.

Explanation:

This is the excerpt that best shows that the story is told in the first person. The first person point of view is the one in which the narrator is telling us of his own experiences. This perspective is easily recognized due to its use of the first person pronoun ("I"). The only option that uses this perspective is option B.

learning how to embrace the effects of colonialism is one of the central ideas of the play.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.