Don’t know but hope you have a good day
It should be after competitor. the colon will separate the sentence from what he has an advantage over.
1. Because we were late, the teacher cancelled the exam.
2. The teacher cancelled the exam because we were late.
3. I will help you with your assignments, but you will have to pay me to complete them.
4. Completing my exams creates an opportunity for me to have some fun.
5. My teacher was right, the test was fairly easy.
6. I was very excited about going on the ride, however it turned out to be a very boring ride.
7. “I will always be there,” she whispered right there, beside you.
8. Timothy Wilson, the basketball coach, is no longer coaching the team.
Answer:
Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, has participated in seventy-seven lotteries and is a staunch advocate for keeping things exactly the way they are. He dismisses the towns and young people who have stopped having lotteries as “crazy fools,” and he is threatened by the idea of change. He believes, illogically, that the people who want to stop holding lotteries will soon want to live in caves, as though only the lottery keeps society stable. He also holds fast to what seems to be an old wives’ tale—“Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon”—and fears that if the lottery stops, the villagers will be forced to eat “chickweed and acorns.” Again, this idea suggests that stopping the lottery will lead to a return to a much earlier era, when people hunted and gathered for their food. These illogical, irrational fears reveal that Old Man Warner harbors a strong belief in superstition. He easily accepts the way things are because this is how they’ve always been, and he believes any change to the status quo will lead to disaster. This way of thinking shows how dangerous it is to follow tradition blindly, never questioning beliefs that are passed down from one generation to the next.
