1. The sentence that uses the correct quotation marks and italics is in letter C. Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" is a short poem that makes me stop and think.
2. The answer is in letter D. In 1983, the boat, "Australia II", won the America's Cup.
3. The sentence with the correct italics and quotation marks is in letter B. At the family reunion, my grandfather delighted everyone when he sang "Getting To Know You".
Answer:
How do these lines evoke a sense of time and place in which this poem is set?
B) The mention of the "midnight sun" and men who "moil for gold" indicates that the poem takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon in the late nineteenth century.
Explanation:
In Yukon territory, north of the Arctic Circle, a phenomenon called the Midnight Sun occurs from June to September. The sun does not really set during summer, remaining visible even at midnight. Since the author of the poem mentions the Midnight Sun, we can safely assume he is talking about a place either north of the Arctic Circle, or south of the Antarctic Circle. How do we know, then, that this is about Yukon? Because of the phrase "moil for gold". The author is talking of the Klondike Gold Rush that took place in the Yukon territory. When news spread that gold had been found in the area, around 10,000 people migrated to Yukon to mine for the valuable metal.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
D is the only correctly-punctuated sentence of them all. A is almost incomplete, as there are 2 ideas joined in a single sentence without even a comma to separate them (even though the ideal thing would be a period after "veterans." B is almost correct, but the comma that follows "syndrome" should either be replaced by a semi-colon or a period, or the next sentence should start with a lead-in like "as." C is correct up until the second comma, where a new idea is introduced; this new idea should be introduced as a new sentence, with either a period or a semi-colon. D is the correct use of the semi-colon, as it separates a different idea from the first one, but not so much as to put a period between them.
