Read this excerpt from a short story.Julian had been tutoring his brother all morning, and solving for the unknown variable was becoming a tedious process. The two students needed a break.“Let’s put the algebra aside and get outside for a while this afternoon,” suggested Julian.“Yeah, and I’ll ask Ma if I can have a couple bucks so we can buy some pops up on Lincoln.”In a few minutes, the boys left the apartment, pulling on their baseball caps and smiling with relief.
Read this excerpt from a short story.Ginny headed to baggage claim, knowing she would find her suitcase there. She hoped her uncle would be there, too, though he sometimes opted to call from his cell phone outside the terminal. She hefted her heavy carry-on bag, stepped on the escalator, and began the descent.She heard him before she saw him. “Well, there you are! I was just fixin’ to call you because they ain’t got your flight information posted.”“Hi, Charley!” Ginny responded. “We were delayed flying out of Newark, but it was an easy flight.”The two embraced and headed toward the baggage turnstile, where a hot pink suitcase was emerging.
Read this excerpt from The Call of the Wild by Jack London.And this was the manner of dog Buck was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener's helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance. . . .The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked between them.
Read this excerpt from Chapter One of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild.And at such times that money passed between them the strangers took one or more of the dogs away with them. Buck wondered where they went, for they never came back; but the fear of the future was strong upon him, and he was glad each time when he was not selected.
Read this sentence from Chapter One of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild.For two days and nights this express car was dragged along at the tail of shrieking locomotives; and for two days and nights Buck neither ate nor drank.
Read this excerpt from The Call of the Wild by Jack London.And as he had seen horses work, so he was set to work, hauling Francois on a sled to the forest that fringed the valley, and returning with a load of firewood.
Read this sentence from Chapter One of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild.Buck rushed at the splintering wood, sinking his teeth into it, surging and wrestling with it. Wherever the hatchet fell on the outside, he was there on the inside, snarling and growling, as furiously anxious to get out as the man in the red sweater was calmly intent on getting him out.
Which line from Chapter One of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild contains dialect?
Which line from Chapter One of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild contains dialect?
Read this excerpt from Chapter Two of Jack London’s The Call of the Wild.Before he had recovered from the shock caused by the tragic passing of Curly, he received another shock. Francois fastened upon him an arrangement of straps and buckles. It was a harness, such as he had seen the grooms put on the horses at home.
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