If the mother is mentioned for the first time in your task or if she is just a mother in general it's an "a". If the same mother is mentioned a few times in the task or if she's a specific person in the task then it's a "the".
Because they didn't have the time to write what he had written quick enough and some people would change his speech to make him sound bad
Answer:
What is the author’s purpose in "The Thirsty Tree" in highlighting the various mistakes made by different agencies in the past?
<h2>to suggest a better approach to environmental management after showing how other strategies have ultimately been unsuccessful
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to show the impossibility of managing the American Southwest environment without placing restrictions on human water usage
to suggest that the various agencies would do better if they were combined into one agency to oversee the entire region
to show that efforts in the American Southwest need to focus on endangered wildlife as much as they focus on trees
Explanation:
just took test this is right