Read the sentence.The skillful pilot maneuvered successfully during the training mission.
Read the paragraph.After the final battle, rumor had it that a few renegades had slipped off into the forest to avoid capture. These sneaky rogues have continually eluded capture. The leaders of the empire are worried that the rebels will form a resistance movement first.
Why might a writer use the passive voice? Choose three answers. The writer wants to make the action livelier.The writer wants to emphasize the receiver of the action.The writer does not know who performed the action.The writer wants to make the action more specific.The writer does not think knowing who did the action is important.
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Read the passage from “Initiation.”The door behind her opened and a ray of light sliced across the soft gloom of the basement room."Hey Millicent, come on out now. This is it." There were some of the girls outside."I'm coming," she said, getting up and moving out of the soft darkness into the glare of light, thinking: This is it, all right. The worst part, the hardest part, the part of initiation that I figured out myself.
Which sentence uses a prepositional phrase as an adverbial phrase?
How do authors present and develop characters? Choose four answers.the way characters are describedthe situations in which the characters interactthe number of characters in each chapterdialogue between charactersconflicts within and between characters
Which sentence uses the passive voice for the main verb?
Read the following passage from "The Caged Bird.”But a bird that stalksdown his narrow cagecan seldom see throughhis bars of ragehis wings are clipped andhis feet are tiedso he opens his throat to sing.
Read the excerpt from "Daughter of Invention"."Sticks and stones don't break bones," she chanted. Yoyo could tell, though, by the look on her face, it was as if one of those stones the kids had aimed at her daughters had hit her. But she always pretended they were at fault. "What did you do to provoke them? It takes two to tangle, you know.”
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Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”A free bird leapson the back of the windand floats downstreamtill the current endsand dips his wingin the orange sun raysand dares to claim the sky.
Read the sentence.Last night, I ________ my essay on the history of comic books.
Read the passage from “The Caged Bird.”The caged bird singswith fearful trillof things unknownbut longed for stilland his tune is heardon the distant hill for the caged birdsings of freedom.
Read the dictionary entry.re • frain [ri-freyn]1. (verb) to resist doing something2. (noun) the chorus of a musical piece
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