Nick learns from Jordan Baker the details of Tom's behavior in Santa Barbara after his and Daisy's honeymoon. She tells Nick that Tom was involved in a car accident that made the newspapers. He was with another woman, a maid at the Santa Barbara Hotel. Her arm was broken. This shows Tom's infidelity began early in his marriage and continued. Daisy was aware of it (everyone who read the newspaper was aware of it), but she remained in her marriage and gave birth to their daughter several months later.
I will encourage my friends and my family to check and update their emergency contact information by giving them the reason why they should do so. I will tell them that it is very important to have the emergency contacts that are accessible and reachable<span>. In case of emergencies, it is very vital that someone can help them right away.</span>
Apart from the guiding questions provided in the passage, below are some steps to make a good summary:
- Eliminate non-vital information.
- Join sentences with related ideas.
- Re-organize ideas to improve sentence fluency.
Taking these into consideration, here is an example summary from the passage taken from History and Geography 7, Unit 6.
Archaeologists discovered that people came to the North American continent long ago possibly by crossing fifty-six miles between Asia and Alaska. While the date and details of their trip remain unknown, as nomads, they migrated during the spring and summer in search of food for their herds and camped during the winter. Eventually, they settled from the east coast to the tip of South America. Artifacts found from this era were used for hunting animals to get food and clothing.
Personification is a figure of speech where human qualities are give to animals, objects or ideas.
Two examples of sky turned to personification :
1. The sun glared down at me from <span>sky.
2. T</span><span>he stars danced playfully in the moonlit </span>sky.
