A. the tulips were bright slashes of color like a childs crayon drawing
a simile is a comparison using like or as
A conflict of interest involves a person or entity that has two relationships competing with each other for the persons loyalty for example the person might have a loyalty to an employer and also loyalty to family business each of their businesses excepts the persons to have its best interest first
Answer: He asked if he was a scientist or an arts graduate.
Explanation:
Indirect speech is a report of someone else's statement, question or utterance. By using indirect speech, we avoid quoting the statement directly as in direct speech.
In some languages, including English, the tense changes as we convert a direct speech into indirect speech, which is called <em>the sequence of tenses</em>. In this example:<em> </em><em>Is</em><em> he a scientist or an arts graduate?</em>, present simple tense becomes past simple tense in indirect speech - <em>He asked if he </em><em>was</em><em> a scientist or an arts graduate.</em>