Q. Join the following sentences to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so:
(i) The sea king’s wife had died many years ago. His old mother took care of the
castle for him.
(ii) The youngest mermaid was a quiet child. She loved to hear her grandmother
tell stories.
(iii) You can sit on a rock in the moonlight. You can watch the ships sail by.
(iv) She saw children enjoying themselves. They were swimming in the river.
(v) A little dog barked at her. She quickly swam back home.
(vi) She looked out from the water. The sea was green.
(vii) There were big white icebergs. They looked like diamonds.
(viii) She looked in. She saw a young prince.
(ix) The little mermaid watched from the water. The prince went out of the room.
(x) She was frightened. She could not take her eyes off the prince.

Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich suggests that ivan ilyich aspired to be part of the elite in society from a young age? a.ivan ilyich was  le phenix de la famille  as people said.  he was neither as cold and formal as his elder brother nor as wild as the younger, but was a happy mean between them—an intelligent polished, lively and agreeable man.b.  even when he was at the school of law he was just what he remained for the rest of his life:   a capable, cheerful, good-natured, and sociable man, though strict in the fulfillment of what he considered to be his duty:   and he considered his duty to be what was so considered by those in authority.c.neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them.d.all the enthusiasms of childhood and youth passed without leaving much trace on him; he succumbed to sensuality, to vanity, and latterly among the highest classes to liberalism, but always within limits which his instinct unfailingly indicated to him as correct.e.at school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them;