The correct answer is A. <span>My favorite stores are Bloomingdale's and Macy's. My sister only shops at Nordstrom.
The names of the shops are Bloomingdale's, and Macy's - both of these shops have the apostrophe and then -s in their actual name, so these cannot be omitted. The third shop doesn't have an apostrophe and -s: its name is just Nordstrom. This is why the other options are incorrect.
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The phrase "lily of a man" as it is used in line 3 of Gary Soto's poem most closely means an anxious weakling, as is said in option C and explained below.
To find the answer, we used our knowledge of context clues.
<h3>What are context clues?</h3>
Context clues are any words or phrases that help us figure out the meaning or connotation of other words or phrases in the same context. Here, we need to understand the meaning of "lily of a man."
The context clues used for that is "A coward I am not," the phrase that comes immediately before "lily of a man." Since both phrases complete each other, we can assume they have similar meanings.
Therefore, we can safely conclude the speaker is saying that he is not an anxious weakling, not a coward. The best answer in this case is option C.
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Answer: What this passage means to me is you can’t just Believe you can do something, you must try. With the actions you take to work towards something you believe you can do you learn and it pushes you to believe you can do more. I think if you believe you can do something and set a limit for it you’re only blocking yourself from believing you can do more taking action to do what you believe you can do will help you reach further and set limits almost impossible to reach but with action you can be one of the firsts to reach it.
Explanation:
Research has it that,stress is commonly associated by loss of interest in things or people ,by shopping one is able to focus on positive increase affect in the body by acquiring positive vibes or emotions thus regulation of negative emotions plus stress.