A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.
<span>2 I went to bed. Paul phoned. When Paul phoned, I had gone to bed.
3 The shoplifter ran away. The police arrived. The police arrived after the shoplifter had run away.
4 Dad cooked dinner. Mum got home. Mum got home before Dad had cooked dinner.
5 The vandals sprayed graffiti on the wall. The police caught them. The vandals sprayed graffiti on the wall before the police had caught them.
6 The film started. We arrived at the cinema. Before we arrived at the cinema, the film had started.
7 It started to rain. We left the beach. We left the beach before it had started to rain.
8 The train left. We got to the station. When we got to the station, the train had left.
Past perfect tense allows the writer to tie the action to a specific point in time. The formula for past perfect is had and the past participle. Simple past tense is just the past participle.
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Answer:
We would start measuring things in random units, let's say horses, but it would be incorrect because not all horses have same lengths, they come in all shapes and sizes.
Explanation:
Units of measurement are important because it is something everybody can use as a base unit, like for example a specific language like english.
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Columbus’ first voyage was to Asia on 8.3.1492
The quality of the beat generation that Kerouac expresses in this excerpt is a spirit of adventure.
You can see in this passage that he is talking about his 'life on the road' - meaning that he is always traveling and experiencing new things, which was a common thing for the beat generation of the 1960s. They wanted a change, both in their personal lives, and in the world.
