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My grandfather the fisherman always told me that the best way to communicate with fish is to drop them a line.
There are three phrases that help us to understand the pun in the text: The grandfather is a fisherman, it means his job is to catch fish, by communicate he means to make the fish come closer, and by drop them a line he means the fishing rod thread.
Taking the above into account the correct answers are:
A.“communicate” and “drop them a line”
B.The pun plays on a phrase that means both to send a note and to attempt to catch a fish.
The phrase that reasonably represents the purpose of Nazario’s editorial is "to persuade readers the United States should change its refugee policy for Central America"The Nazario editorial is regarding an article written by Sonia Nazario where she voices her apprehension about the immigration policy of America towards Central America and why those policies should be reviewed and modified.
Answer:
WHAT do you do for a living
Explanation:
Answer:
1. Yesterday, the cobbler mended your shoes.
2. We raised the flag a short time ago.
3. He shot it down this month.
4. They left ten minutes ago.
5. Yesterday, the doctor gave him an injection.
Explanation:
I have been able to rewrite the sentences in the Simple Past Tense adding the expressions in the brackets.
The simple past tense is known to be a verb tense which talks about actions or activities that took place or existed before now.
Such tenses are used to describe and explain the events that took place in the past. In English, regular verbs actually form the simple past tense "-ed" while other irregular verbs can take different forms.
Despite adding the expressions in the brackets while rewriting the sentences, the simple past tense is still retained.
