Answer:
Explanation:
Directions:
Today, you will take Session 1 of the Grade 3 English Language Arts Test.
Read each passage and question. Then, follow the directions to answer each
question. Mark your answers by completely filling in the circles in your test
booklet. Do not make any pencil marks outside of the circles. If you need to
change an answer, be sure to erase your first answer completely.
One of the questions will ask you to write a response. Write your response in the
space provided in your test booklet. Only responses written within the provided
space will be scored.
If you do not know the answer to a question, you may go on to the next question.
If you finish early, you may review your answers and any questions you did not
answer in this session ONLY. Do not go past the stop sign.
Gideon heard a man telling his friend about a dream. The man said that he dreamed of barley bread rolled into the camp of Midian and it hit the tent so hard that the tent turned over and fell. The man's friend then responded saying the dream was about the sword of Gideon son of Joash and that God would hand him Midian and the whole army.
That's correct, it's option D) Both A and B.
Option C looks incorrect due to the misuse of punctuation. Since the conjunction "and" was added, there is no reason to use a semicolon before it in this situation.
Option A uses correct punctuation, comma, before the conjunction "and". Let's keep it in mind that it is a conjunction's role to connect two sentences in order to form a compound one.
Option B is also correct because, even though it does not use a conjunction to connect the sentences, it uses the semicolon to indicate the sentences are related, that their ideas are connected.
Answer:
George and Lennie have an "american dream" in their minds because they are in the great depression at the time. The great depression was a time when stock markets had a huge crash and there were barely any jobs available so people always worked on ranches. In this situation it is George and Lennie.
Explanation:
The great depression was in the 1930s.
Answer:
C. "Neither as a boy nor as a man was he a toady, but from early youth was by nature attracted to people of high station as a fly is drawn to the light, assimilating their ways and views of life and establishing friendly relations with them"
Explanation:
The excerpt presented above is from Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Iliyich that shows that even in a young age Ivan wanted to be part of the high class society or the elite group.
