Answer:
Figure of speech, any intentional deviation from literal statement or common usage that emphasizes, clarifies, or embellishes both written and spoken language. Forming an integral part of language, figures of speech are found in oral literatures as well as in polished poetry and prose and in everyday speech. Greeting-card rhymes, advertising slogans, newspaper headlines, the captions of cartoons, and the mottoes of families and institutions often use figures of speech, generally for humorous, mnemonic, or eye-catching purposes. The argots of sports, jazz, business, politics, or any specialized groups abound in figurative language.
1) will be arriving
2) will be preparing
3) has lived
4) entered
5) have been working
Answer:
The sentence that has a nominative absolute is "The game now being over, the contestants quietly filed out of the room. "
Explanation:
A nominative absolute is a noun phrase that could either begin or end the sentence, this is totally independent and has no grammatical connection with the other parts of the sentence and commonly contains a participle or a participial phrase, "being over" is a participial phrase that is located at the beginning of the sentence and works as a nominative absolute.
The correct answer is D. School uniforms should not be required because they reduce individual expression.
Explanation:
A claim should always express the position of the author towards the issue being discussed, besides this, effective claims do not only express if the author agrees or disagrees but the reason or reasons for this. Additionally, claims should be debatable which means they need to be proven.
According to this "School uniforms should not be required because they reduce individual expression" is the best example of an effective claim because it shows the author opposes school uniforms, the reason for this "they reduce individual expression" and it is debatable.
