Identify the predicate (a phrase) of the following paragraphs that modifies the subject! 1) A few people in northern countries enjoy the long, dark nights and

Identify the predicate (a phrase) of the following paragraphs that modifies the subject! 1) A few people in northern countries enjoy the long, dark nights and cold temperature of winter. According to scientists, wintery conditions may be making some people ill. They suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) or “the winter blues”.Sufferers become depressed as winter approaches, get even more depressed as the days become shorter but recover rapidly in spring. The symptons can be very serious and may be mistaken for signs of mental illness. The further you live from the equator, the more likely you are to be affected by SAD. It is believed that up to 20% the population of northern countries suffers from SAD and that 5% are chronic cases. 2) Take the case of Janet Blake, a 30-year old public relations officer for a film distribution company. As the temperature dropped and the nights became longer she found it more and more difficult to carry out her duties at work. Her job was very stressful and involved making speeches and appearing on television and radio. “The pressure was just too much,” she said. “Things became unbearable. I felt really low. When I had to travel to my office in the dark and come home in the dark I could stand it no longer. I just couldn’t cope anymore.” She started to sleep three to four hours longer than usual, felt drowsy, eat much more and spent hour after hour slumped in an armchair in front of the TV. She often burst into tears for no reason at all and had no interest in other people. “I put on a lot of weight,” she said, “and became very sluggish. I was in a state of utter despair.” In the end she was forced to give up her job. 3) At first, doctors tried to treat her with drugs, but without success. Fortunately, her case came to the attention of Dr Hamish MacRae, who has made a special study od SAD. His research has shown him that there was a simple and very effective cure – light. When SAD sufferers are exposed to artificial light which simulates sunlight, they get better almost immediately. Dr MacRae had a special lightbox installed in Janet’s home. She made a rapid recovery and was able to return to work. “The problems seem to be caused by lack of light rather than by low temperatures,” said Dr MacRae. “It seems that some people feel the desire to hibernate in winter in the same way that many animals do. Ironically, SAD sufferer often become hyperactive in spring. They swing from one extreme to the other. In spring sunshine they become very talkative and cannot sleep or sit still. The light box can help to keep their behaviour in balance.” 4) When Thorkil Sonne and his wife, Annette, learned that their 3-year-old son, Lars, had autism, they did what any parent who has faith in reason and research would do: They started reading. At first they were relieved that so much was written on the topic. “Then came sadness,” Annette says. Lars would have difficulty navigating the social world, they learned, and might never be completely independent. The bleak accounts of autistic adults who had to rely on their parents made them fear the future. What they read, however, didn’t square with the Lars, they came home to every day. He was a happy, curious boy, and as he grew, he amazed them with his quirky and astonishing abilities. If his parents threw out a date — Dec. 20, 1997, say — he could name, almost instantly, the day of the week (Saturday). And, far more usefully for his family, who live near Copenhagen, Lars knew the train schedules of all of Denmark’s major routes. 5) One day when Lars was 7, Thorkil Sonne was puttering around the house doing weekend chores while Lars sat on a wooden chair, hunched for hours over a sheet of paper, pencil in hand, sketching chubby rectangles and filling them with numerals in what seemed to represent a rough outline of Europe. The family had recently gone on a long car trip from Scotland to Germany, and Lars passed the time in the back seat studying a road atlas. Sonne walked over to a low shelf in the living room, pulled out the atlas and opened it up. The table of contents was presented as a map of the continent, with page numbers listed in boxes over the various countries (the fjords of Norway, Pages 34-35; Ireland, Pages 76-77). Thorkil returned to Lars’s side. He slid a finger along the atlas, moving from box to box, comparing the source with his son’s copy. Every number matched. Lars had reproduced the entire spread, from memory, without an error. “I was stunned, absolutely,” Sonne told me.