Answer:
Instead of merely taking over poetic forms from previous eras, the Romantic poets developed the form known as the conversation poem.
I have looked this question up and found it is about a couple of paragraphs from the essay "Taming a Bicycle" by Mark Twain. Since the essay is long, I will not post it here. But it can easily be found online.
Answer:
The three descriptions which reflect the purpose of the essay are:
1. to entertains the reader with humorous ideas related to bike riding.
3. to inform the reader about the process of learning to ride a bike
5. to instruct the reader about how to get on a bike
Explanation:
In his humorous essay "Taming a Bicycle," Mark Twain describes the process of learning how to ride a bicycle in a most interesting way. At the same time he assures readers they will fall, he also assures them that they will keep on trying. After all, that is the beauty of riding a bike: it is dangerous, it can hurt you, and that is exactly why you want to do it.
Twain compares riding a bike to learning German, making the latter seem uninteresting and complicated. He also tells readers what is involved in riding (balance, propel, steer, etc.) and how to get on the bike, which he describes in a most funny way, as if it were a matter that demands great attention and a step-by-step explanation.
Ponyboy is very caring and generous and loves his brother Soda "I kept saving my money for a year, thinking that someday I could by Mickey Mouse back for Soda."
Ponyboy is very book smart by lacks common sense "...But I don't use my head."
Ponyboy is also very different from the rest of the Outsiders, he is not a violent kid. "Why do I fight? I thought, and I couldn't think of any real good reasons."
(hope this helps, The Outsiders was one of my favorite set books for English)
The correct answer is were.
Since English grammar has this thing called the sequence of tenses, which means that if the first verb in the sentence is in the past tense, all following verbs will have to be in the past tense as well.
So here, the first verb is <em>knew, </em>which is the past simple tense of the verb <em>to know, </em>which means that the following verb <em>to be </em>also has to be given in the past. The past simple form of the verb <em>to be </em>for plural is WERE.