Which sentence should be revised to include commas to set off a nonrestrictive element?
Read the sentence.The shop next door, which is family owned, creates specially made, chocolate covered desserts.
Read the sentence.After we heard the way he played the song on his guitar, we bought it.
Read Noni’s research question about the history of the airplane.What did the Wright brothers use to make their first powered airplane?
Which sentence uses a subjective pronoun correctly?
Read the excerpt from Midsummer by Derek Walcott.With the stampeding hiss and scurry of green lemmings, midsummer’s leaves race to extinction like the roarof a Brixton riot tunneled by water hoses;
Identify reasons that support this claim. Select three answers.
Read the excerpt from "Digging."My father, digging. I look down
Carmelo is writing a thesis for a media analysis essay.The Recycling Commission says in its posters that viewers will make a better world by correctly recycling items in their homes.
Read the excerpt from "Digging."The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
Read the excerpt from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.It is useless, and the time awfully fails me, to prolong this description; no one has ever suffered such torments . . .
Read the excerpt from Act I of The Importance of Being Earnest.Lane. I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.Algernon. Good heavens! Is marriage so demoralising as that?
Read the passage from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.On the 8th of January Utterson had dined at the doctor’s with a small party; Lanyon had been there; and the face of the host had looked from one to the other as in the old days when the trio were inseparable friends. On the 12th, and again on the 14th, the door was shut against the lawyer. "The doctor was confined to the house,” Poole said, "and saw no one.” On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits.
Which statements are true of both a political speech and a printed political advertisement? Select 3 options.They utilize diction as rhetoric.They employ parallelism.They seek to inspire.They use colors and images.They attempt to persuade.
Which persuasive techniques are used in this poster? Select 2 options.
Read the excerpt from "Benin Plaque: The Oba with Europeans.”They and their Dutch and English competitors, who followed later in the sixteenth century, carried gold and ivory to Europe and in return brought commodities from all over the world that were greatly valued by the Oba’s court . . .
Read the claim.The way to improve education is to divide schools by gender, so that males and females are taught separately.
Read the excerpt from H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.It was such a gradual movement that he discovered it only through noticing that a black mark that had been near him five minutes ago was now at the other side of the circumference. Even then he scarcely understood what this indicated, until he heard a muffled grating sound and saw the black mark jerk forward an inch or so. Then the thing came upon him in a flash. The cylinder was artificial—hollow—with an end that screwed out! Something within the cylinder was unscrewing the top!
Which phrases from the excerpt provide visual details? Select 3 options.
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