When the reporting verb is in the past tense and the reported speech is in the past indefinite it changes to past perfect in indirect speech.

After the phrase 'It is no good' a verb+ing acts as a Gerund.

Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold reflects a pessimistic worldview about a world full of conflicts and lacking in joy.

The correct spelling is 'Gazette'.

'Get to' means to arrive at a place.

Killing the bird without reason symbolizes human irrationality and destructiveness against nature.

'Areopagitica' by John Milton is a famous prose work defending freedom of the press.

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte and depicts intense destructive love fueling multigenerational cruelty and obsession.

Wordsworth explicitly rejected 'inane and gaudy phraseology' as a characteristic of poetry.

'To have a shot' is an idiom meaning to make an attempt or try.

The famous 'Seven Ages of Man' speech in As You Like It was delivered by the character Jaques.

'that she recommended' modifies the noun 'book' and is therefore a relative clause.

'Monarch' refers to both male and female rulers so it is of common gender.

Percipience means keen insight; dullness means lack of intelligence or perception making it the antonym.

In 'on the up' the word 'up' functions as a noun preceded by the article 'the'.

'So' is a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS). The others are subordinating conjunctions.

A Passage to India by EM Forster best exemplifies racial prejudice oppressive power dynamics and the gulf between Eastern and Western cultures.

The correct word for a large building housing aircraft is 'hangar' (not 'hanger').

'Including' functions as a preposition here introducing examples of the skills.

'Crepuscular' relates to twilight (dawn or dusk) so 'twilit' is its synonym.