<u>John Updike (</u> 1932 – 2009) was an American poet and novelist. He also wrote short stories and was a literary critic. He became famous for his comical ‘ <em><u>Rabbit’ </u></em>series.
Question: What is a common characteristic of John Updike’s writing?
Answer: D.) it is often humorous
Apart from the guiding questions provided in the passage, below are some steps to make a good summary:
- Eliminate non-vital information.
- Join sentences with related ideas.
- Re-organize ideas to improve sentence fluency.
Taking these into consideration, here is an example summary from the passage taken from History and Geography 7, Unit 6.
Archaeologists discovered that people came to the North American continent long ago possibly by crossing fifty-six miles between Asia and Alaska. While the date and details of their trip remain unknown, as nomads, they migrated during the spring and summer in search of food for their herds and camped during the winter. Eventually, they settled from the east coast to the tip of South America. Artifacts found from this era were used for hunting animals to get food and clothing.
Answer:
At the Naval Surface Warfare Center outside of Washington D.C, a sophisticated indoor ocean that can recreate eight different open-water conditions is used to test models of ships.
Explanation:
The subject-verb agreement, simply said, represents the grammar rule where subject and verb must agree in number, so if the subject is singular, the verb must also be in singular and vice versa - if the subject is plural, then the verb must be plural too.
In the given sentence we have the subject: <em>a sophisticated indoor ocean - </em>which is singular and we have the verb: <em>are</em> - which is plural, so they do not agree in number, so we have to change the number of the verb in order to have the subject-verb agreement completed.
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</span><span>What is a reading dialogue?
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A reading dialogue is a type of reading technique. It's used to talk about a story to help make reading less complex.
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