Answer:
Disney supporters successfully influenced Congress through lobbying.
B. Both make readers think about American Indian contributions to the world.
Both pieces touch on the two sides of Thanksgiving and how Native Americans helped the land.
Answer:
Rita has a cold.
Are you enjoying this film?
These roses have a nice scent
We don't know where Sheila has gone.
He weighs a hundred kilograms.
Those jeans look nice on you.
Axel doesn't understand English.
He comes from Germany.
Oh no! I think the milk has boiled over.
Explanation:
The simple present tense is used when an action is happening at the time being or at a regular rate. For example, in the first sentence above, the correct form of the sentence is the present tense because the action is happening currently.
The present continuous tense indicates that the action is occurring presently, at a regular rate and will continue right into the future. The present participle of the main verb which ends with -ing is used. The second sentence is indicative of a present continuous tense because the action is in progress and will continue happening after the statement is made.
This question is missing the options. I've found the options online, and they are as follows:
[...] Which statement most accurately explains the structure of this passage?
A. The author builds up to the most important idea in the story, which is that the bean lives.
B. The author uses chronological order to show the history of the bean's experiences.
C. The author uses cause and effect to show that the tailor's repair causes the bean to have a black line.
D. The author uses problem and solution to show how the tailor solves the bean's problem of having exploded.
Answer:
The statement that best explains the structure of the passage is:
C. The author uses cause and effect to show that the tailor's repair causes the bean to have a black line.
Explanation:
We must read the full passage before we can choose the best answer. We might be tempted to choose the option that speaks of chronological order, since the author does use it to build the story in the proper sequence.<u> It is only in the end that we get to see the purpose of the passage. When the author says, "The bean thanked him most prettily, but as the tailor used black thread, all beans since then have a black seam," it is revealed that the passage is actually telling us the cause behind the black spot every bean has. The cause is the black thread used by the tailor to mend a bean that had exploded. The effect is the black spot itself. Therefore, the best option is letter C.</u>
