The correct answer is A) "I fought to get loose, and almost did for a second; then they tightened up on me and the one on my chest slugged me a couple of times."
The excerpt from The Outsiders that best represents an external conflict is "I fought to get loose, and almost did for a second; then they tightened up on me and the one on my chest slugged me a couple of times."
We are talking about the famous American youngster's film "The Outsiders," directed by renowned Italian-American director Francis Ford Coppola. In 1982, Coppola decided to do his version, an adaptation of a novel written in 1963 by American author S.E. Hinton.
Answer:
"I fought to get loose, and almost did for a second; then they tightened up on me and the one on my chest slugged me a couple of times."
Explanation:
"Terminar a prova em tempo exigiu esforço e concentração, mas fiquei satisfeito com o resultado." Nessa frase, "terminar" e "satisfeito" representam, respectivamente, as formas verbais nominais infinitivo e particípio, que estão funcionando como: