A sugar producers needed a new system to make sugar less difficult to produce
6) Of this examples, the sentence containing an idiom is B.
The phrase "stand a chance" does not have any meaning that can be deduced from the individual words. It was through usage that it acquired the meaning of "having the possibility of doing something".
7) The diction from the excerpt of "And of Clay Are We Created?" is C: vivid and figurative.
The words in this sentence creates a very vivid image of war, the soldiers' dispair and the dreadful image of bodies rotting in the mud.
At the same time, the tone is figurative because the author uses the word "infinite" to express that there was a great amount of dead animals; and uses the expression "viscous soup" to refer to the mixture of rotting bodies, dead animals and mud.
Answer:
comma splice
Explanation:
two possible revisions:
Mary Ellen was not following the directions. Therefore, she did not write an appropriate paper.
Mary Ellen was not following the directions; therefore, she did not write an appropriate paper.
The ONLY time that a comma can be used to connect two independent clauses is when it is paired with a coordinating conjunction. The word "therefore" is <em>not</em> a coordinating conjunction; it is a conjunctive adverb (which requires the punctuation as shown in the two revisions above.)
from what I'm thinking it might be B
