Using your own words to express someone else's message or ideas. In a
paraphrase, the ideas and meaning of the original source must be
maintained; the main ideas need to come through, but the wording has to
be your own.
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Answer: C.Eric doesn't really think it's fun to be around John.
Although Eric is behaving politely towards John, as he says "hello" and also tells him that it is a pleasure to see him again, the author suggests this is false. By describing his thoughts, we see that Eric thinks the picnic is going to be worse because of John's presence. He also seems annoyed at the fact that John shows up at events often. We can conclude from this that Eric does not think it is fun to be around John.
Answer:
I think your answer would be B) Although my father is not an activist; I have become involved in the GMO controversy, but I remain respectful of my father's opinion.
Explanation:
From what I can remember about compound-complex sentences is that it contains 2 or more independent clauses and usually 1 dependent clause.