Answer:
A gerund phrase is a phrase consisting of a gerund and any modifiers or objects associated with it. A gerund is a noun made from a verb root plus ing (a present participle). A whole gerund phrase functions in a sentence just like a noun, and can act as a subject, an object, or a predicate nominative.
Write a 500- to 1,000-word personal narrative with a simple plot. Include enough exposition that the reader knows what's going on, some rising action to let the reader know what led up to the main event, a climax, and a short conclusion that reflects on the experience in some way.
Answer:
Jason had first seen Mia at the sandlot playground close to their homes. They were both 10-year-olds who still perceived the opposite sex as the enemy. She grouped up with a bunch of squeaky girls who made faces and laughed at the boys while they played ball on the street. The girls had taken over the swings as their domain, reigning undefeated, proudly. At one point, the soccerball ran toward them. Jason was the one to be sacrificed since he was closer to where they were. He ran to the ball, picked it up with the tips of his fingers and glanced at the girls. They were staring at him as if he were some nasty intruder who deserved the guillotine.
They all attended the same school; maybe a couple of boys and girls had to move to a different neighborhood over the years. But, essentially, they all remained. Of course, with time, they dynamics changed. Around the age of 13, boys and girls were no longer adversaries, but a strange and exotic foreign land to be discovered. Laughter transformed into giggles. The same boys who once shouted, “You can’t play with us, you’re a girl!” were now struggling to invite those long-haired nymphs out - an ice cream, or the movies, if their mothers were more lenient and foolish enough.
Mia was the one left behind, though. She didn’t grow as tall, as curvy, as mischievous as the others. So, they left her behind. Mia was no longer invited to come over. Why have her attend slumber parties when she couldn’t talk about boys? She had never kissed anyone on the lips, the poor thing. Had never had a boy trying to explode her phone with texts filled with jokes and compliments. She would stay home, watching her shows, reading her books, dreaming of fictional boys, wondering why the real-life, flesh-and-bone ones didn’t fancy her. The quirky girls on movies always got the guy in the end. Her end didn’t seem to be in sight yet.
Jason paid attention, though he pretended not to. He couldn’t let the guys know he liked Mia. She wasn’t attractive enough for him to be allowed to say something. So, he kept the childish infatuation he believed to be love deep within him. When the school trip came, each one of the boys sat next to their favorite girl on the bus, grabbing every chance to touch their hands, desperately trying to get them sufficiently flattered to grant them a kiss later. Jason had to sit beside Mia. Or at least that is how the others saw it. As if poor Jason had had no choice, since no other seats were available. Someone patted him on the back, wished him good luck. Jason offered a faint smile back while bursting with joy on the inside. Still, he was too popular, too handsome, too athletic to let his feelings show. Sitting down next to Mia was all he did. He saw his chance come and go, wishing she were just a little more like the other girls, just a little more ordinary, so that he could like her in public.
Two years later, Mia showed up holding Steve’s hand. Jason’s smile was wiped out off his face for a split second. It came back though, as faint as it had been on that bus. Mia hadn’t changed much. She was taller, perhaps, but still annoyingly different. And Steve… Steve was the prince of the boys, the kind of guy who is good at everything without threatening the others’ confidence. Steve never tried to be the king, never wished to rule it all by being the best, the most athletic, the smartest. He had that natural wisdom that prevented ambition from becoming a barrier instead of a weapon. Jason always thought Steve would end up with one of the cooler girls, but not Mia. He had been hoping she would wise up and transform into a girl he, Jason, would be allowed to publicly love.
Jason approached Steve just as Mia disappeared somewhere for a couple of minutes.
“So”, he was able to say. “You and Mia?”
“Yeah!” exclaimed Steve, beaming.
“How did that happen?” he softly gasped at the end.
“She’s a great girl, you know? Cute, sweet, smart… I’m lucky.” Jason explained humbly, as if Mia’s noticing him had been a divine deed. She returned from the restroom, and they resumed their lives.
As they walked into the classroom, Jason felt an envious thorn sting his heart. He saw Mia smile at Steve, a smile Jason had never thought she had to offer. He also saw some of the boys looking at Steve as if he were an outcast, some type of Robin Hood opposing their kingdom’s status quo. And, much to Jason’s astonishment and jealousy, he realized Steve couldn’t care less. He carried on being himself, unafraid, unapologetic. He never lost his rank, never quit being a prince. He smiled, said his hi’s, played ball, got good grades, kept living his life as he had always done. The other boys couldn’t help but accept it, accept him. If they could not destroy his confidence, they might as well learn to admire it. Jason, on the other hand, was condemned to the dungeons of his cowardice, feeling that strange pain one feels when they realize someone had the guts to achieve what they believed to be impossible.
Explanation:
a word that starts a question
Answer:
Who, What, When, Where, Why
Explanation:
sometimes how
9. Why does the author include Information about Margot's breakdown over taking a shower in the school
showers?
Answer:
Margot's refusal to take a shower symbolically represents her negative feelings regarding the rainy planet. She wants to be dry, not wet, baking in the sun, not under the tyranny of a constant downpour, and so rebels against the shower. To her, the shower symbolizes the constant rain she hates. The author portrays this to represent her characteristics and feelings.
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Identify the italicized word as an adverb or a preposition.
She walked by the market.
A.preposition
B.adverb
Answer:
i dont know which one is in italic but i think its B
Explanation:
Answer:
B.
Explanation:
not quite sure but i think its B. adverb
32. Match the columns to complete the comparisons.
eum)
1) as poor as
2) as cold as
3) as hard as
4) as cool as
5) as brave as
6) as old as
7) as happy as
8) as fresh as
a) nails
b) a lion
c) a church mouse
d) ice
e) a daisy
f) a lark
g) the hills
h) a cucumber
Answer:
Explanation:
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Write a response in which you identify the different perspectives about the situation represented by Bruno, Shmuel, Lieutenant Kotler. What is
each character thinking and feeling about what's happening in this excerpt?
You should write one A.C.E. paragraph for each of the 3 characters.
Response
Answer:
Narrator
An anonymous narrator tells the story and refers to the characters using third-person pronouns like “he” and “she.”
Point Of View
The novel has a childlike point of view. The narrator has access to the thoughts and feelings of the novel’s protagonist, Bruno, and his perspective dominates the tale. As a nine-year-old boy, Bruno frequently misunderstands the adult world around him. For instance, he doesn’t comprehend the nature or purpose of the concentration camp over which his father presides. He also mishears the camp’s name, misunderstanding “Auschwitz” as “Out-With.”
Tone
Fable-like yet foreboding. As a young child, Bruno understands little of what’s going on around him. Because of this, the novel has a fable-like tone in which Bruno sees everything as an adventure. Yet, as Bruno slowly learns more about the desolate realities of the camp, the tone of the novel grows increasingly foreboding.
Tense
Past
Setting (Time)
1943
Setting (Place)
Berlin, Germany, and the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland
Protagonist
Bruno, a nine-year-old German boy
Major Conflict
The novel’s major conflict arises when Bruno’s family is forced to move from their home in Berlin to a desolate place in Poland. Isolated, friendless, and far away from the familiar comforts of home, Bruno rails against the injustice of his situation. He also feels confused about the people in the striped pajamas he can see from his bedroom window, living on the other side of a tall fence.
Explanation:
How does the anecdote, brief story, in paragraph four contribute to the authors explanation of Julius Ceaser life and character
Answer:
According to Shakespeare as the author of this play, He portrays Caesar as an ambitious and loyal man. He is a prisoner of his principles and always fixed to the laws of public institutions. He was charged by his conspirators as someone whose judgment is delusional because he looks for absolute power over Rome which was not true. His faith in his principles and obedience to the law did not allow him to quit going to the Senate. He does not pay heed to his wife's dream because he was a man of his words.
Explanation:
Caesar's aura and public image was immortal to him and he always has a deep faith on his capabilities. The ideas of Caesar which were conflicting to Rome powerful elite made sense by the end of the play in Act V when Brutus finally accepted that Caeser's power is beyond his grave and producing misfortune for them.
Answer:
Julius Caesar, the Roman dictator, was assassinated by a group of senators on the Ides of March (15 March) of 44 BC during a meeting of the Senate at the Curia of Pompey of the Theatre of Pompey in Rome. The senators stabbed Caesar 23 times. The senators claimed to be acting over fears that Caesar's unprecedented concentration of power during his dictatorship was undermining the Roman Republic, and presented the deed as an act of tyrannicide. At least 60 senators were party to the conspiracy, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Despite the death of Caesar, the conspirators were unable to restore the institutions of the Republic. The ramifications of the assassination led to the Liberators' civil war and ultimately to the Principate period of the Roman Empire.
\Caesar had served the Republic for eight years in the Gallic Wars, fully conquering the region of Gaul (roughly equivalent to modern-day France). After the Roman Senate demanded Caesar to disband his army and return home as a civilian, he refused, crossing the Rubicon with his army and plunging Rome into Caesar's Civil War in 49 BC. After defeating the last of the opposition, Caesar was appointed dictator perpetuo ("dictator in perpetuity") in early 44 BC.[2] Roman historian Titus Livius describes three incidents that occurred from 45 to 44 BC as the final causes of Caesar's assassination – the "three last straws" as far as some Romans were concerned.[3]
The first incident took place in December 45 BC or possibly early 44 BC.[3] According to Roman historian Cassius Dio, after the Senate had voted to bestow a large group of honours upon Caesar, they decided to present them to him formally, and marched as a senatorial delegation to the Temple of Venus Genetrix.[4] When they arrived, etiquette called for Caesar to stand up to greet the senators, but he did not rise. He also joked about their news, saying that his honours needed to be cut back instead of increased.[5] Roman historian Suetonius wrote (almost 150 years later) that Caesar failed to rise in the temple, either because he was restrained by the consul Lucius Cornelius Balbus or that he balked at the suggestion he should rise.[6] Regardless of the reasoning, by practically rejecting a senatorial gift and not acknowledging the delegation's presence with proper etiquette, Caesar gave the strong impression that he no longer cared about the Senate.[5]
The second incident occurred in 44 BC. One day in January, the tribunes Gaius Epidius Marullus and Lucius Caesetius Flavus discovered a diadem on the head of the statue of Caesar on the Rostra in the Roman Forum.[5] According to Suetonius, the tribunes ordered that the wreath be removed as it was a symbol of Jupiter and royalty.[7] Nobody knew who had placed the diadem, but Caesar suspected that the tribunes had arranged for it to appear so that they could have the honour of removing it.[5] Matters escalated shortly after on the 26th, when Caesar was riding on horseback to Rome on the Appian Way.[8] A few members of the crowd greeted him as rex ("king"), to which Caesar replied, "I am not Rex, but Caesar" ("Non sum Rex, sed Caesar").[9] This was wordplay; "Rex" was a family name as well as a Latin title. Marullus and Flavus, the aforementioned tribunes, were not amused, and ordered the man who first cried "Rex" arrested. In a later senate meeting, Caesar accused the tribunes of attempting to create opposition to him, and had them removed from office and membership in the Senate.[8] The Roman plebs took their tribunes seriously as the representatives of the common people; Caesar's actions against the tribunes put him on the wrong side of public opinion.[10]
The third incident took place at the festival of the Lupercalia, on the 15 February 44 BC. Mark Antony, who had been elected co-consul with Caesar, climbed onto the Rostra and placed a diadem on Caesar's head, saying "The People give this to you through me." While a few members of the crowd applauded, most responded with silence. Caesar removed the diadem from his head; Antony again placed it on him, only to get the same response from the crowd.[11] Finally, Caesar put it aside to use as a sacrifice to Jupiter Optimus Maximus.[7] "Jupiter alone of the Romans is king," Caesar said, which received an enthusiastic response from the crowd.[11] At the time, many believed that Caesar's rejection of the diadem was a way for him to see if there was enough support for him to become king, and despised him for it.[12]
According to Suetonius, Caesar's assassination ultimately occurred primarily due to concerns that he wished to crown himself the king of Rome.[13] These concerns were exacerbated by the "three last straws" of 45 and 44 BC. In just a few months, Caesar had disrespected the Senate, removed People's Tribunes, and toyed with monarchy. By February, the conspiracy that caused his assassination was being born.[12]
Explanation:
What are 3 things you want to accomplish and why?
Answer:
1. grow up well - to live healthyly
2. help others - cause I don't want karma
3. to not be racist to anyone cause everyone are equal
on the tenth day of christmas, what does my true love give to me?
What is a major event in the passage above?
OA. Alice falls down a rabbit-hole without knowing where it ends.
OB. Alice peeps into the book that her sister is reading on the bank.
OC. Alice examines the cupboards and bookshelves of a well.
OD. Alice decides to pick daisies in order to make a daisy-chain.
what is the answer
Answer:
c
Explanation:
because is mabye the same as the questio
The writer should _____ to the reader that a flashback is occurring.
withhold
signal
suppress
mask
Explanation:
signal makes the most sense in this case
Answer:
signal
Explanation:
Signal is the only answer that makes sense here in this context. Signal in the context of this sentence means that they are "prompting" or "alerting" the reader that a flashback is occurring.
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Answer:
1. Embellish
2. Whizz
3. Astronomer
4. Gregarious
5. Delectable
Explanation:
Dictionary
He _____ to music at the moment. * 1 คะแนน
listening
listens
listen
is listening
Answer:
listens
Explanation:
11. She was sent to the ……… after her parents died.
A. hospital
B. school
C. orphanage
Answer:
C . orphanage
Explanation:
orphanage is the answer in my guess
Which of the following terms describes an author's reference to someone, something, or somewhere real outside of a text?
an oxymoron
a metaphor
a theme
an allusion
How is Millicent directly characterized?
Answer:
Personality. Millicent is a girl of small stature, black hair and always dressed in red, has a great love of money, she always finds opportunities to do good business selling items or changing other objects. His idol is Scrooge McDuck, Uncle Donald, trying to find whenever visit his nephew Donald Duck.
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Ebony and Tamika love shoes. When comparing the number of pairs of shoes that they own, they noticed that Ebony has four times as many as Tamika. If Tamika has s pairs of shoes and Ebony has four times as many, who has more?
What information should your organizational system document? bibliographic information for all sources used research information in its various forms author, title of the piece, and publisher all of these
The information that your organizational system should document are: All of these.
The organizational system document refers to a file that shows all the sources that were referenced during writing.
The bibliography which is a list of all your sources, the pieces of research information, the author, the title, and the publisher are all necessary information that should be included in the organizational system document.
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How ……..…….. milk do you need? – We need 250 milliliters of milk.
Answer:
much
Explanation:
how much milk do you need?- We need 250 milliliters of milk.
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Read the passage.
The topic that the underlined domain words best
connect to is
A lot of practice takes place before a play opens.
Performers run lines to learn them. That way, they
don't drop lines or step on lines. They also memorize
blocking so they know where to stand.
acting
O dancing
entertaining
singing
Answer:
acting
Explanation:
only actors use lines
Answer:
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Explanation:
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These ideas and customs that colonists brought to America were based on
all of these landmark English documents, except?
Answer:
Question. These ideas and customs that colonist brought to America were based on all of these (the margna carta, the Great Britain constitution, the bill of rights, and the petition of right) landmark English documents except ? check_circle.
Explanation:
An individual who is bilingual is able to speak two different languages. Please select the best answer from the choices provided T F.
A bilingual individual is a person who is able to speak two different languages.
Another term that can be used to describe a person who can speak two different languages is bilinguist. This means when a person is capable of speaking two languages such as French and Spanish, Spanish and Chinese, Chinese and french etc.
The benefits of a bilinguist are:
Ability to speak two different languagesAbility to understand two different languages when spokenAbility to translate two languages
Therefore, it is true that a bilingual individual is an individual who speaks two different languages.
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Answer:
True
Explanation:
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Answer:
1. cheering
2. clasp
3. worship
4. incense
5. preserve
6. procession
7. pray
8. rituals
9. respect
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Answer:
Hello there!
1. cheering
2. clasp
3. worship
4. incense
5. preserve
6. procession
7. pray
8. rituals
9. respect
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How many countries in the world
Last month you had a holiday overseas where you stayed with your friend. He have just sent you some photos of your holiday.
Write a letter to your friend. In your letter:
thank them for the photos and for the holiday
explain why you didn’t write earlier
invite them to come and stay with you
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Answer:
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Why is it important to have social awareness?
In your own words
Answer:
its important because it helps empathize with others
Explanation:
When enhancing your style for diction, why is it important to pay attention to
words you choose?
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