Read the passage. (1) Edgar Allan Poe wrote the short story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” (2) Poe wrote the story in 1843. (3) In the s
tory, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye. (4) He thinks it looks like the eye of a vulture. (5) We soon learn that the haunted man has a mysterious disease. (6) The disease has made the man insane. (7) He does not know it. (8) For seven nights, he sneaks into the old man’s room. (9) He watches the sleeping man. (10) I will not tell you what happens next because I do not want to spoil the story for you. Which is the most effective way to combine sentences (3) and (4)? In the story, thinking an old man’s eye looks like the eye of a vulture, a man is haunted by it. In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye, which he thinks looks like the eye of a vulture. In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye he thinks it looks like the eye of a vulture. In the story, haunted by the eye of an old man that looks like a vulture, a man is haunted
The most effective way to combine sentences (3) and (4) is "In the story, a man is haunted by an old man’s eye, which he thinks looks like the eye of a vulture."
Explanation:
The best way to connect sentences three and four is to have them as one dependant sentence and an independent one that is connected by a relative pronoun, this makes the sentences four an extension of sentence three adding information by specifying details about the old man's eye that is mentioned in line three.
Squanto was the interpreter for Massaoit (the Wampanoag Chief) and helped establish a treaty between the Pilgrims and Wampanoag's as well as helped the Pilgrims to survive with crops.
Maybe it's because not everyone can cope with each other after such a long time. Maybe not everyone has great social skills after living together for awhile.
