The correct answer is: I made made my own barrel but you can buy them pretty cheaply now.
The main idea: Rain barrels are easy to install and use.
This idea needs to be supported with a sentence that relates in a logical and coherent way with it's content. In other words the following sentences need to demonstrate the reasons they barrel are cheap and easy to install, examples and facts can be given.
In the sentence chosen the author says that he made his own barrel, in this way he tries to show us that anyone can do it, an expert is not needed to perform this task, therefore they are "easy to install and use". By mentioning the low price he makes an implied relation, we associate cheap things with simple things, if the barrel was a complicated thing to use they would probably be more expensive.
The other options given just give general information related to barrels but are not able to connect with the main idea.
The first one: c. He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.
The second one: d. “As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.” and e. “…but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam.”
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without details given in a report (such as a police report) how would you know what to look for and what signs to follow
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The answer is D. They are less complex because they lack the multiple perspectives of the novel. if you are on Plato.