The first time most people fall for E.B. White – certainly the first time I did – they are 6 or 7 or 8. In 1952, “Charlotte’s Web” made him the New Yorker writer with the largest grade-school fan base.
I fell in love with “Charlotte’s Web” because, when White talked about grown-up mysteries like love and death, he was as honest as a punch to the jaw. Many years later, I fell in love with “Death of a Pig” because, covering the same subjects for adults, White was as straightforward as a pie to the face.
Here are the facts of the case: A gentleman farmer (and New Yorker staff writer) ventures out to his pig enclosure one September afternoon and discovers that the hog he has nurtured through spring and summer has lost its appetite, gone listless. An obstruction of the bowel is suspected. The farmer, his dachshund and a veterinarian preside over the pig’s decline, until it dies alone a few days later, sometime between supper and midnight. The pig receives a graveside autopsy and is buried under a wild apple tree. The farmer accepts his neighbor’s condolences (“the premature expiration of a pig is, I soon discovered, a departure which the community marks solemnly on its calendar, a sorrow in which it feels fully involved”) before taking up his pen and telling the story “in penitence and in grief, as a man who failed to raise his pig.”
Answer:
G
It's properly g or f I chose g because it makes more sense than f.
Answer:
2. If we had the money, we'd buy a beautiful house in...
(we'd is short for, we would).
3. Lisa will have a lot of fun when she goes to Germany...
4. Unless they reduce the price, they'll never....
5. If I were you, I'll take the dress back to the shop.
6. Annabel will look for a job as soon as she finishes her...
7. If it gets so windy,...
8. If you found some extra money...
9. You'll never finish...
10. Sarah will be...
Explanation:
First conditional statements refer to future events that have a high possibility of occurring. For example, in the sentence, "Glory<em> will cook the food"</em>, there is a high possibility to the fact that this event will occur.
Second conditionals are used in sentences where the possibility of the event happening is very low. For example in the statement, "<em>I'd leap for joy if I found a bag full of money in the bush"</em>. Even though things like this happen, their chances of happening is quite low.
<span>The correct answer is B. old age. It is a common saying that over time, as people grow old, they become more like children again. At first this is only psychologically but usually at one point when people are too old they also need physical help as if they were children, having to wear diapers, be fed, and many similar things.</span>
