Q. What is a lively and active voice?
Prefer active voice to passive voice. The active voice, on the other hand, makes a sentence clear and lively. An active construction has a subject, a transitive verb, and a direct object, whereas in a passive construction the object of the action of the verb is the grammatical subject of the sentence.
Q. What type of sentence is made up of two simple sentences?
compound sentence
Q. What does a minor sentence show?
A minor sentence is an incomplete sentence that still makes sense without all the necessary information. Minor sentences, also known as fragments, are a kind of sentence that is often missing a main verb or a subject. They often help to: create a conversational effect.
Q. What does I’m a minor mean?
In law, a minor is a person under a certain age, usually the age of majority, which legally demarcates childhood from adulthood. The age of majority depends upon jurisdiction and application, but it is generally 18. The concept of minor is not sharply defined in most jurisdictions.
Q. What is the legal definition of a minor?
In law, the term minor (also infant or infancy) refers to a person who is under the “age of majority” – the age at which a person is legally recognized as an adult. Minors are considered to be under the care of a parent or guardian, unless they are emancipated.
Q. Are you still a child at 17?
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) defines a child as everyone under 18 unless, “under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier”.
Q. Is 20 considered a minor?
Here are the most commonly accepted definitions of minors, children and juveniles: Minors or Minority Definition: Only people 21 years of age can purchase alcohol thus a 20 year old is still a minor in this category
Q. Who decided 18 was legal age?
US government decided to enlist 18 year old young adults during WW2 and the Korean war for the first time. There was an outcry in US that 18 year old can serve the army but they can’t vote. Hence, 26th amendment was passed on 1st July 1971 which lowered the age of voting from 21 to 18.
Q. Can an 18 year old date a 15 year old in California?
In a Nutshell: Sex between an 18 year-old and a 15 year-old is illegal in California, meaning any touching of “private parts” of either, even with consent of both parties (and perhaps even the parents of each teenager) is illegal in California because the age of consent is 18.
