Herbert hoover’s son kept a pair of alligators in the white house. determine if the prepositional phrase is an adverb or adjective phrase, and identify the word it is using.

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there is no short story here so that i can answer the question.

can you give us the poems?

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to persuade readers that a conquering prince must destroy a former republic if he hopes to hold it.

in the excerpt from "the prince," the author niccolò machiavelli suggests that to take possession of a city and endure the control over it, it is necessary to destroy it first. otherwise, people who have known freedom will eventually turn against the new rulers and fight back to recover their power.