Excerpt from: Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain
THERE was no use in arguing with a person like this. I promptly put such a strain on my memory that by and by even the shoal water and the countless crossing-marks began to stay with me. But the result was just the same. I never could more than get one knotty thing learned before another presented itself. Now I had often seen pilots gazing at the water and pretending to read it as if it were a book; but it was a book that told me nothing. A time came at last, however, when Mr. Bixby seemed to think me far enough advanced to bear a lesson on water-reading. So he began—
What conclusion can you make from the first paragraph?
A) Mr. Bixby dislikes the narrator.
B) The narrator is angry with Mr. Bixby.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
D) Mr. Bixby thinks the narrator is stubborn.
C) The narrator thinks Mr. Bixby is stubborn.
Answer:
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1. Because fragments make it hard to understand your sentence<u>.</u>
2. Proofreading your writing can be very interesting. <u>You</u> can find out what you have written.
3. While procrastinating and worrying, the exam<u> will get </u>closer and closer.
5. The students <u>must</u> have a good understanding of grammar.
6. Anyone who <u>hasn't</u> done their grammar assignment must have had something better to do.
7. Studying can be exciting, rewarding and sometimes really <u>annoying</u>.
8. The only excuse <u>there</u> was, that <u>their</u> exam started early.
9. When you use an apostrophe, make sure you know its proper use. Its often used incorrectly.
10. The student didn't get<u> any</u> marks for the assignment.
Hope this helped you!
Explanation: For question 4 and 9 i couldn't find any errors.
Pride.
explanation: It is because as they see the banner in the sky, they are likely to feel a satisfaction or pleasure as they hoped to see the banner and once they saw it, they feel satisfactory in which is one way of describing that the mood that is shown above is pride.
Answer:
speaker's attitude towards the sinking of the ship is one of not understanding the conciluton