<span>Both stories are old Indian legends that involve the same character a trickster spider fairy named Iktomi. In the Ducks and the Blanket story Iktomi is hungry but in both stories he isn't successful in eating the food. Even when he tricked the ducks the wolves got the food and the deer meat disappeared because in both cases he was worried about what ever else was going on and not eating his food. I think this story is trying to tell people to complete tasks before moving on.</span>
<span>a. If the American colonists are unhappy with the king, they should appeal to Parliament.
</span>What argument does the author anticipate and refute in this excerpt from the Declaration of Independence? "Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our<span>British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity."
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<span>b. Most British Parliament members sympathize with the plight of the American colonies.
c. The American colonies are well represented in the British Parliament and have no right to blame the king.
d. The allegations against the king made by the colonists are without proof and unjustified.
I hope I helped! :)</span>
Match each sentence to its level of formality:
1. Informal: It’s a lot of fun to watch the Olympics.
2. Very informal: Kicking back and watching the Olympics is awesome.
3. Formal: Watching the Olympic Games is a highly satisfying source of entertainment.
They way to recognize the level of formality of a sentence is by observing the lexic selection (i.e. the words used) and the syntactic complexity.
